Thanks for the idea, but policy routing might be just a little bit difficult
for me
right now. I can enable the MAC broadcast on a router, but the would defeat
the whole
purpose of having a router.
Peter Slow wrote:
> i beleive it is one of those evil broadcast packets. you'd have to brigde
> it, or write something to send out your own.
> you might wanna look at the type feild if there is one in the packet, and
> try and do some sort of policy routing thing to automatically trow it onto
a
> tunnel interface...and then do whatever....
> this brings me to another question.
> if i make it so that a policy map matches a broadcast packet, and explicity
> route that packet out of an interface using the policy routing thingy, can
i
> route a broadcast?
> if so, i will pat myself on the back for finally coming up with a good
> idea.... =P
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: khramov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 1:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Wake on LAN [7:8755]
>
> Well it seems that WOL is a widely used technology. So there is got to be
a
> way how
> pass those packets through the router.
> Any ideas?
>
> Patrick Ramsey wrote:
>
> > It is indeed a packet. And all of the utils I have seen to perform a WOL
> to
> > a device use MAC addresses, so routing would not be possible. Now that
I
> > think about it, this would be the only way this would work unless you
> could
> > build a tcp/ip stack into the rom of a nic. (otherwise the OS would
> already
> > have to be awake to make use of it's tcp/ip stack)
> >
> > -Patrick
> >
> > >>> "Priscilla Oppenheimer" 06/15/01 03:48PM >>>
> > Could you capture with a protocol analyzer the actual Wake on LAN packet?
> > It's always been a mystery to me. But my guess is that it's not a
routable
> > packet.
> >
> > On the other hand, is it even a packet or it is just an electrical surge
> or
> > something?
> >
> > I suggest you find out more about what the Wake on LAN sender actually
> > sends. Maybe somebody else knows. We did discuss it once before. Check
the
> > archives. We did not discusss it from the point of view of it crossing a
> > router, though.
> >
> > Priscilla
> >
> > At 03:29 PM 6/15/01, khramov wrote:
> > >Is there a special config on a router for wake on lan to work?
> > ________________________
> >
> > Priscilla Oppenheimer
> > http://www.priscilla.com
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