Wake on LAN in the enterprise
Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net
Mon Dec 13 16:50:49 UTC 2010
On 12/13/2010 11:08 AM, Berry Mobley wrote:
> Hello...
>
> I'm trying to get a handle on implementation of wake-on-lan in an
> enterprise environment. Cisco gear, lots of subnets. I've made it work
> with directed broadcasts, but I'd really rather not have 40 or 50 'ip
> helper-address x.x.x.bcastaddr' statements on the vlans with the SMS
> servers.
>
Assuming you are talking servers and not desktops, you will probably end
up doing this with IPMI, which most servers have on-motherboard these days.
Cordially
Patrick
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