Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

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