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Questions tagged [wake-on-lan]

Wake-on-LAN (WoL) is a NIC feature that allows powering up a computer system by sending a magic packet.

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I'm not quite certain how to achieve the equivalent of ip directed broadcast with a FortiGate. In this case a FortiGate 60E with FortiOS 5.6.7. So I started to dig a little. QUESTION: Can anyone ...
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OK so in cisco land you can add an acl to the ip directed broadcas command, but this option does not appear in FTOS (Dell Networking OS 9) if you enable ip directed broadcast on the vlan and then ...
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I'm attempting to build a system to Auto-WOL devices when plugged into HP ProCurve switches (2510G and 2530G models). This is on a completely flat network, no VLANs or subnet routing. If you'd like ...
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There is a desktop computer in our LAN that keeps booting almost every time seconds after it has been turned off manually. I suspected it was a Wake-on-LAN issue since the beginning, and it looks ...
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In IPv4, if I want to send a magic packet to a workstation in another VLAN, I enable directed broadcasts in the remote VLAN and send it to the VLAN's broadcast address. This works great. In IPv6, I ...
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