Wake on LAN across subnets

[terry...@epa.gov]

Is there a way to get Zenwork's wake-on-lan feature to work across subnets?

I am not a LAN administrator so pardon any ignorance you see in my
question.

Zenwork's wake-on-lan function won't work on our LAN because our switches
are set to not allow forwarding of subnet-oriented broadcasts, which is a
generic requirment for zenworks wake-on-lan function to work. Our security
folks say enabling this on the switches is not an option because it
introduce a security vulnerbility. I find it strange that there wouldn't
be a solution for this by Novell/Zenworks considering that multiple
subnets, switches, and security considerations are usually a component of
all networks which zenworks is specifically targeted for in the first
place.

Thanks

[Marcus Breiden]

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:52:59 GMT, terry...@epa.gov wrote:

> Our security
> folks say enabling this on the switches is not an option because it
> introduce a security vulnerbility.

it is the only way though.. that's how any WOL software works.. they can
limit the packets comming from either your c1 wks or the zenworks server
though.. otherwise you would require one server per subnet
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