Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

[Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick () zill net>]

On 12/13/2010 11:08 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.

Assuming you are talking servers and not desktops, you will probably end
up doing this with IPMI, which most servers have on-motherboard these days.

Cordially

Patrick