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ERS 8600 Directed Broadcasts using Wake on LAN Application
Wake on LAN, WOL, application sends UDP Broadcast packets to establish communication between server and clients. The server generates UDP broadcast packets which can be routed by the ERS 8600 by enabling directed subnet broadcast on a per VLAN basis. Using Java Device Manager, connect to the ERS 8600 and enable the Direct Broadcast feature under the IP VLAN tab, which is disabled by default on all VLANs.

The corresponding CLI command to enable this feature on VLAN 20 is: vlan 20 ip directed-broadcast enable. Directed broadcast received on VLAN 20 for the WOL application will be forwarded by the ERS 8600 based on its routing table. Note that ERS 8600 UPD Forwarding filters are NOT configured or used, since the WOL application uses directed broadcasts to establish communication between the server and clients.