[133575] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Dec 13 11:33:10 2010
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:32:52 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <BD346C3A-1807-4B2B-AB44-FDFF39F88E40@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/13/2010 10:20 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> 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.
>
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).
Jack
