On 12/13/2010 10:43 AM, Christopher.Marget@usc-bt.com wrote:

Jack Bates:

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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