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lehni011
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...
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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

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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.

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    lehni011
    Aspirant
    May 22, 2020
    Hi,

    yes i have to. We got about 17 subnets to be covered.

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