[133574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Dec 13 11:25:48 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1PSAxn-000E4q-5n@s0.nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:20:20 -0800
To: Berry Mobley <berry@gadsdenst.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
WOL is unfortunately terribly deficient in that the spec. never =
envisioned the possibility
of a need for wake on WAN.
Bottom line, it's a non-routeable layer 2 protocol. Your choices boil =
down to the
helper address nightmare you describe or proxy servers on every subnet.
Owen
On Dec 13, 2010, at 8:08 AM, Berry Mobley wrote:
> Hello...
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> 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.
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> Are there any enterprises that are doing this for large (100+) numbers =
of subnets? I can't find a single example anywhere with more than 2 =
networks.
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> I've searched the Cisco-NSP archives as well with no luck, but maybe I =
didn't go back far enough.
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> Thanks for any help you can provide.
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> Berry Mobley
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