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  I see. If just sending packets can wake a PC up, that's easy enough.

  On the other hand, may be the most difficult part is to get the IP address
of an individual PC, as my network uses DHCP. I know the MAC of the ethernet
card, but the IP address is not fixed.

Joi Ellis [TeamB] <joi@aravox.com> wrote in message news:3b1ce08c_2@dnews...
> TSE Ming-wai <mwtse@netvigator.com> wrote:
> > Dear Ellis,
>
> >   My system already have the necessary hardware/BIOS, and they are
working.
> > I just want to have more control. What I want to implement is to ask the
> > user to register on a PC, the PC then wake-up one chosen PC for the user
to
> > use.
>
> It sounds like perhaps all you need to do is have your Java app open
> an IP socket to the target machine.  Simply the attempt to open a socket
will
> send packets at the machine's interface, and if it's configured to wake up
> when traffic is directed at it, it should wake up.
>
> That's just a guess on my part.
>
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