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Aspirant

May 14, 2020

Wake on LAN Unicast & IP directed broadcast

Hi, is it possible to send a WOL-packet via IP directed Broadcast threw our network with the M7300-24XF? It should be a unicast packet till it reaches the destination switch and then turn to a broad...

JohnC_V

NETGEAR Employee Retired

May 19, 2020

lehni011,

Welcome to our community! :)

I did inquire about this to our higher tier. Our switch cannot send any magic packet like this to a host and we don't have any license for this type of case. You may need a 3rd party software that sends a packet.

Regards,

John

NETGEAR Community Team

lehni011
Aspirant
May 20, 2020
Hi John,

thank you for your help.

We got a remote software installation server, who will send the magic packet. What i want to know is, is it possible to capsule the frame (send by our software installation server) as an unicast packet, from switch to switch, till it reaches the destination switch and then turn to a broadcast packet to wake up the client?

Best regards
Nico
- schumaku
  Guru - Experienced User
  May 20, 2020
  Do you need to cover multiple IP subnetworks? That would be the use case for WoL using UDP encapsulation - not for the same LAN (VLAN) resp. IP subnet.
  - lehni011
    Aspirant
    May 22, 2020
    Hi,
    
    yes i have to. We got about 17 subnets to be covered.