On 2007/05/06 04:38, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Is anyone have been able to get the redirect console working on the Sun 2100 > M2 or not? > Either the Ethernet management port or the serial port. > > The Ethernet port only work when OpenBSD is nor running, as soon as it half > way loaded, > it knockdown the port itself and the console port via the serial port > doesn't work > either.
I don't know the M2 but on other systems where a bge(4) is shared between ASF/IPMI and the OS, the only thing you can do for now is boot -c and disable bge, leaving you with only the nfe(4). Looking at other OS with shared NIC support, there's a bit of pain involved in getting it to work (including lockups on some systems..). Some vendors (I think it was HP on some systems) provide a BIOS option to choose between shared/dedicated NIC, which is a much better idea. I don't like sharing management nics - even when they are working, they silently eat certain traffic. Now I don't bother with the management card on X2100, I just use the standard BIOS serial redirect and 'set tty com0' and power them from a masterswitch. A definite step down from lomlite on sparc64 boxes. AIUI X4x00 (and the old badged newisys systems, v20z/v40z) are a lot better. I don't know about the serial console... istr on one of my non-M2 x2100 I just couldn't get it to work, whatever settings I tried, until I reset CMOS to default values and it sprang back into life.
