Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments

["Kevin Geil" <kgeil () orda org>]

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

 

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[mailto:pauldotcom-bounces () mail pauldotcom com] On Behalf Of Robin Wood
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 9:18 AM
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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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