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Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:20:20 -0800
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. Owen On Dec 13, 2010, at 8:08 AM, Berry Mobley wrote:
Hello... I'm trying to get a handle on implementation of wake-on-lan in an enterprise environment. Cisco gear, lots of subnets. I've made it work with directed broadcasts, but I'd really rather not have 40 or 50 'ip helper-address x.x.x.bcastaddr' statements on the vlans with the SMS servers. Are there any enterprises that are doing this for large (100+) numbers of subnets? I can't find a single example anywhere with more than 2 networks. I've searched the Cisco-NSP archives as well with no luck, but maybe I didn't go back far enough. Thanks for any help you can provide. Berry Mobley
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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 Atticus (Dec 13)
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- Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise Joel Jaeggli (Dec 23)