Friday, March 7, 2008

Windows 2003 SP1 Gateway crash and Wake On LAN

There appears to be a bug between Tivoli and Windows 2003 SP1 where WOL can cause the gateway to crash. Since there are quite a few people looking at going to SP1 you should probably test this out in your environment.

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Problem
The gateway on a Windows 2003 Managed Node is crashing frequently. Service Pack 1 is installed on this machine. In the gatelog you can see that it is last trying to do a Wake on Lan to an Endpoint:
end_wol_packet: remote ip addr=X.X.X.X remote net mask=X.X.X.X wol_broadcast=1 wol_direct=0

Solution
On windows 2003 with SP1 the following Service has to be started:
"Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)". Check with "net start", if the service is running. If not, start it.

This problem is also investigated with Microsoft.
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This appears to be when using wol_broadcast. I have not be able to see if wol_direct is impacted by this also.

Check out Reference # 1223779 (Could not get the link to work in the blog right now)

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