MX Wake on LAN failure

[Richard]

LAN with 5 or 6 VLANs dont see WOL packets when sent from a server

When a PC is asleep and the ARP table has been cleared the WOL does not get through to PCs on different VLANs

Anyone got a work around for this?

Does not happen on SonicWall only MXs

[ww]

Its a layer2 protocol, so this also shouldnt work on sonicwall by default.

I read sonicwall has a solution for this but afaik meraki does not.

https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/how-do-i-allow-wake-on-lan-packets-to-pass-through-...

[Richard]

Thanks!

[PhilipDAth]

Did you know that Meraki has native wake on lan support?  You click on the client in the Meraki Dashboard, and can wake them up from there.

[Richard]

Thats ok if you want to do 1 or 2 but a hundred - and we want them to wake on a script every day at a set time

[PhilipDAth]

Here is the API call you can make from a script to do this.
https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/create-device-live-tools-wake-on-lan/ 

Sample code in Python:

serial = 'Q2QN-9J8L-SLPD'
vlan_id = 12
mac = '00:11:22:33:44:55'

response = dashboard.devices.createDeviceLiveToolsWakeOnLan(
    serial, vlan_id, mac, 
    callback={'url': 'https://webhook.site/28efa24e-f830-4d9f-a12b-fbb9e5035031', 'sharedSecret': 'secret', 'httpServer': {'id': 'aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20vd2ViaG9va3M='}, 'payloadTemplate': {'id': 'wpt_2100'}}
)

print(response)

Note that the callback URL is optional - this just notifies you once it has been done.

I haven't tried this with the Meraki API, but with other systems you can specify a MAC address of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff to send the WOL packet to every client in the VLAN at once, with a single call.

[Richard]

great thanks

Will get this tested if the guys think its suitable

We have used APIU for cameras and WiFi analytics