Wake on Lan
I am testing the Wake On LAN feature. I have a Vostro 230 that it works fine with. I also have a 260 that it doesn't. Both these PC wake up fine with another application (Spiceworks).
I have checked and made sure that MAC address is entry is correct. Is there something else I am missing?
Thanks,
Steve
All Comments (8)
Hi,
We send a magic packet to execute the wake on lan. Do you know how they do it with Spiceworks?
David Hervieux
Could you try this powershell script?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/migreene/archive/2009/04/01/3221273.aspx
David Hervieux
Well this is strange. I ran the script against the Vostro 260 that wasn't working with RDM and it didn't work. I then tried it against the Vostro 230 that RDM was working with and it didn't work there either. The funny thing is that now RDM is not working on the Vostro 230 anymore. Spiceworks still works for both machines.
I don't know if there is another way to send the wol packet. Do you have an idea?
David Hervieux
I am currently working on getting this to work across multiple hops in different subnets. We have it working with SolarWinds WoL utility. The WoL packet that gets sent is going to a destination of the broadcast address of the destination subnet using the destination MAC address. The problem is that the WoL tool in RDM is sending out to 255.255.255.255, which is not what we want it to do. I am looking into some PowerShell scripts to make this happen as well, using a .csv file. But it would be nice if in RDM, you could specify the broadcast address of the destination machine to send the packet to.
Hi Tom,
Would you want a setting for that in File->Options -- Tools or per entry?
edited by dhervieux on 5/29/2014
David Hervieux
I think it would be better per entry so you could specify the broadcast address that the magic packet is sent to.
Thanks,
Tom
I have entered a feature request for that. Thank you for the suggestion
David Hervieux