I am having problems waking up systems using wake on lan. I am running a star topology, when the server is on the same hub as the system thats needs to be woken up it works fine. When the server is on another hub it wont work. The hubs are all connected into a backbone switch.
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The switch is causing the problem. Since the MAC address isn't active on the network at the time, the switch simply discards the packet. Being that a hub is simply a repeater, it blasts it out regardless. This is one of those cases where too much intelligence is causing you problems. There is a a broadcast type of method that can be used, but it's not supported by very many of the WOL utilities/apps out there.
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If your switch is managed, delete the mac address of the server from the ARP table for the previous port. It should then broadcast, looking for the port location of the address. Cumbersome, but it works.
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