[RESOLVED] Wake on LAN unicast

[marcolefo]

Good morning,

I would like to be able to use WOL from the WAPT console.
But I can't get it to work; I'm blocked by my firewall, which isn't allowing broadcast traffic. I'll look into that.

But WOL via unicast works. So, from the WAPT server command line, the following command works perfectly

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wakeonlan -i <ip> <adresse mac>

Is it possible to configure WAPT to use WOL in this way? Unicast instead of broadcast.

Thank you for your help.

[marcolefo]

Okay, I managed to get it working through the firewall.
But the question is still interesting, isn't it?
Have a good weekend.

[dcardon]

Hi Marc,

if I remember correctly, we send the subnet with the wakeonlan command, but not the exact IP address. Switches are usually happy with this configuration... It wouldn't be technically complicated to use the IP address instead, but we thought the best practice was to use the subnet (since the machine is potentially using DHCP, specifying the IP address doesn't necessarily make much sense).

Out of curiosity, what parameter on the switch must have been changed?

Regards,

Denis