Wake on LAN in the enterprise

Jack Bates jbates at brightok.net
Mon Dec 13 16:55:20 UTC 2010


On 12/13/2010 10:43 AM, Christopher.Marget at usc-bt.com wrote:
> Jack Bates:
>> I would suspect that proxy servers being the better deal, though
>> my experience with Cisco is that you may have to use ASR type gear
>> to get a nicer layout (similar to service providers) where you can
>> backend everything to a radius server (I'm still waiting to test
>> this myself, but IOS is really weak on DHCP support).
>
> I hope someone will please clarify the problem statement?
>

My problem is lack of WOL experience and associating dhcp-helper address 
with DHCP; ie, speaking without knowledge. I'm bad about that. :)

> The only router/switch configuration required was to permit directed
> broadcasts from the systems doing the waking.  On by default, I
> believe, but locked down in my environment.
>

IOS specific, I believe. Some have it on; some have it off.


Jack




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