Re: Wake on LAN in corporate environments

[Takayuki Shodai <travellingmonk () gmail com>]

I'm pretty sure Cisco switches are set by default to drop directed
broadcasts. I remember having a discussion about using WOL for updates, but
setting up specific WOL routes from the core to the worksations was a
hassle, and then we couldn't turn off the machines after getting patches
(without 3rd party tools) so the project was dropped.

-Tabo


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Jim Halfpenny <jim.halfpenny () gmail com>wrote:

> 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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