RE: Wake-On-LAN security

["David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>]

  Install a small router that does NAT.  The only machines on
your network receiving unsolicited traffic from outside, then,
should be servers for which you've provided a static NAT mapping.

David Gillett
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) [mailto:hylton () conacher co za] 
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 3:00 AM
> To: Security basics
> Subject: Wake-On-LAN security
>
> I am currently on dialup and have the dialup gateway box 
> connected to a switch via a WOL nic. The modem connects to 
> the gateway box with a serial connection.
>
> I am upgrading to ADSL and will have the ADSL initially, 
> directly connected into the switch.
>
> What command or procedure could be used by a hacker coming 
> through my ADSL connection into the switch to wake up 
> machines plugged into the switch that have Wake-On-LAN nics?
>
> How could I prevent the machines from waking up, besides 
> turning off the switch or unplugging the network cable?
>
> Appreciated
> Hylton
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