Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments

[Josh More <jmore () starmind org>]

I've done this in some environments.

Nessus has a plugin to make this easier:
http://www.tenable.com/blog/leveraging-wake-on-lan-support-to-audit-powered-off-hosts-with-nessus

-Josh More


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:

> 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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