WoL for wireless devices

Cavan
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WoL for wireless devices

Does anything need to be enabled on the Meraki dash to allow WoL to work or do the Meraki APs just pass any Magic packet it receives?

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alemabrahao
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Check it out: https://community.meraki.com/t5/Switching/Meraki-WOL-Wake-On-Lan/m-p/116474

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Cavan
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I'm not using a Meraki switches and referring to WoL for wireless, not wired connections.

alemabrahao
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Did you check on the client detail page?

 

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Update, It will work just for MX and MS.

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PhilipDAth
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WiFi devices don't support WOL (nothing to do with Meraki).

Cavan
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Brash
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That's interesting. I'd honestly never heard of WoL over WiFi.

 

First of all, it's something that Meraki AP's do not support.

A bit of looking around seems to indicate that Intel wifi chips are the only clients that support it and it has very limited vendor support in terms of networks themselves.

rhbirkelund
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I've never heard of WoL over Wifi as well, but your link in the answer to Philip, brought me to http://revolutionwifi.blogspot.com/2010/11/wake-on-wireless-lan.html via Wikipedia.

 

I think that APs most likely will just forward the Magic packet, assuming you have configure the client as according to the guide at Intel and taking the Limitations listed in the link above into consideration.

 

But I think you might be on your own here. 🙂

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