I'm pretty sure Cisco switches are set by default to drop directed broadcasts. I remember having a discussion about using WOL for updates, but setting up specific WOL routes from the core to the worksations was a hassle, and then we couldn't turn off the machines after getting patches (without 3rd party tools) so the project was dropped.
-Tabo On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Jim Halfpenny <[email protected]>wrote: > All this talk of WOL has me wondering if you can send a broadcast to > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff and see what wakes up. > > Jim > > > On 17 October 2013 15:18, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd never thought of WOL being used in corporate environments but someone >> mentioned the other day that theirs did so I was wondering if anyone tries >> flooding a network with WOL packets as part of a test to see if anything >> new wakes up. >> >> It wouldn't take long to fire off a packet to every MAC address as it's a >> single packet and you don't care about the reply. If it is a standardised >> environment then you could limit the number you would have to send based on >> OUI. >> >> Robin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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