[133578] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Mon Dec 13 11:50:52 2010
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:50:49 -0500
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E1PSAxf-000E0N-8t@s0.nanog.org>
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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
