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Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments
From: "Kevin Geil" <kgeil () orda org>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:56:40 -0400
No, but what a great idea for turning everyone's machine on when I want to run vulnerability scans at night. I've always wondered about the security implications of WOL. We use it on a few machines that might need this service, but from time to time, consider turning it on globally. Thanks for sharing. Kevin From: pauldotcom-bounces () mail pauldotcom com [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces () mail pauldotcom com] On Behalf Of Robin Wood Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 9:18 AM To: PaulDotCom Mailing List Subject: [Pauldotcom] Wake on LAN in corporate environments I'd never thought of WOL being used in corporate environments but someone mentioned the other day that theirs did so I was wondering if anyone tries flooding a network with WOL packets as part of a test to see if anything new wakes up. It wouldn't take long to fire off a packet to every MAC address as it's a single packet and you don't care about the reply. If it is a standardised environment then you could limit the number you would have to send based on OUI. Robin
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Current thread:
- Wake on LAN in corporate environments Robin Wood (Oct 17)
- Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments Kevin Geil (Oct 17)
- Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments HaQue (Oct 18)
- Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments Josh More (Oct 17)
- Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments Chris Campbell (Oct 18)
- Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments Danilo Nascimento (Oct 18)
- Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments Robin Wood (Oct 21)
- Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments Robin Wood (Oct 18)
- Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments Jim Halfpenny (Oct 21)
- Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments Takayuki Shodai (Oct 22)
- Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments Kevin Geil (Oct 17)