On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:10:35PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > The Intel IPMI on the motherboard may be to blame. It's always up/on and > listening. > > Also, see my thread in freebsd-questions@ about Dells with Intel em(4) and > Dell PowerEdge switches w/ NIC Teaming, 802.3ad, ng_many2_one, etc. > > For example, traffic sent from the IPMI IP/MAC of the interface is visible > from the OS via tcpdump(8), which is kind of spooky.
This was something I had thought of and I believe I disabled all traces of it. Console redirection, BMC/IPMI, etc, all disabled. Perhaps "disabled" simply means "don't accept connections to IPMI but keep the link up". I'll double check this today and verify. Will the IPMI on the motherboard only work with the onboard ethernet controllers, or will it get its grubby little hands on any/all controllers it finds? If it only works with the onboard, then maybe switching to the PCI card ports will be a sufficient workaround. Thanks! -jon
