[133579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Dec 13 11:55:25 2010
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:55:20 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Christopher.Marget@usc-bt.com
In-Reply-To: <EDDFD1FC71382342A0EC6393B9FCE43106DC9006@usemp12.ins.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/13/2010 10:43 AM, Christopher.Marget@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
