Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments

[Jim Halfpenny <jim.halfpenny () gmail com>]

All this talk of WOL has me wondering if you can send a broadcast to
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff and see what wakes up.

Jim


On 17 October 2013 15:18, 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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