Jeff Behl writes: | that's not the way it's supposed to work, afaik. it'd be silly to tie | the BMC address and the OS assigned address together. you give the BMC | an ip address via a little program that comes from IBM and this address | is independent of the ip address that whatever os you use on the system | assigns to the nic. the redbook that Jung-uk sent a link for shows this | process if you're interested.
FYI, you can set the IP configuration for IPMI via ipmitool 1.6. I have a minimal openipmi compatible driver for ipmitool to work on FreeBSD. I need to do some work on it before it can be released. This let's me configure IPMI via FreeBSD without going into the BIOS config tool. Doug A. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
