On Demand wake on lan

Usage and Config
1

(imported topic written by Anthony91)

Hi,

I noticed some issues with the on demand wake-on-lan

Let’s say i have 2 subnets

192.168.1.0

172.20.19.0

the 192.168.1.0 subnet has the bigfix server resided in it and the on demand wake on lan works fine

however, a router was connecting to the 172.20.19.0 subnet and this somehow caused the on the demand wake on lan to be not working.

i understand certain router does not allow IP directed broadcast.

is there any work around in this case?

2

(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi Anthony,

Is there a NAT between the BigFix Agents on the 172 network and the BigFix Server (or relays)… You might see here for more info:

http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=1488

Ben

3

(imported comment written by Anthony91)

I am afraid there isnt any relay set yet, will that actually helps to resolve the issue if there are relays installed in the taht subnet?

4

(imported comment written by BenKus)

There doesn’t need to be relays for WoL, there only needs to be WoL forwarders… but there are networking configurations that can block the UDP notification to agents (NATs and firewalls in particular), which would interfere with WoL.

Ben