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Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise
From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:32:52 -0600
On 12/13/2010 10:20 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
WOL is unfortunately terribly deficient in that the spec. never envisioned the possibility of a need for wake on WAN. Bottom line, it's a non-routeable layer 2 protocol. Your choices boil down to the helper address nightmare you describe or proxy servers on every subnet.
I would suspect that proxy servers being the better deal, though my experience with Cisco is that you may have to use ASR type gear to get a nicer layout (similar to service providers) where you can backend everything to a radius server (I'm still waiting to test this myself, but IOS is really weak on DHCP support).
Jack
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- Wake on LAN in the enterprise Berry Mobley (Dec 13)
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- Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise Owen DeLong (Dec 13)
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- Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise Atticus (Dec 13)
- Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise Jack Bates (Dec 13)
- Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise Joel Jaeggli (Dec 23)