Doug Ambrisko wrote:
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 tha
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
Julian Elischer writes:
| Jeff wrote:
| > I'm not sure what you mean by in band. The IP address of the BMC is
| > assigned via the bios and is different from what the OS later
| > assigns. With imiptool we can turn on/powercycle/monitor via the BMC
| > assigned address up until the point where
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:42 pm, Jeff wrote:
> Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> >On Tuesday 15 March 2005 01:14 am, Jeff Behl wrote:
> >>Julian Elischer wrote:
> >>>Jeff wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by in band. The IP address of the
> BMC is assigned via the bios and is different from what th
Julian Elischer wrote:
Jung-uk Kim wrote:
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 01:14 am, Jeff Behl wrote:
Julian Elischer wrote:
Jeff wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by in band. The IP address of the
BMC is assigned via the bios and is different from what the OS
later assigns. With imiptool w
Jung-uk Kim wrote:
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 01:14 am, Jeff Behl wrote:
Julian Elischer wrote:
Jeff wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by in band. The IP address of the
BMC is assigned via the bios and is different from what the OS
later assigns. With imiptool we can turn on/powercy
Jeff Behl wrote:
Michael Vince wrote:
Just out of interest has any one got serial console to work with this
IPMI stuff?
I was looking at regular 9pin serial alternatives since Dell machines
normally only have 1 serial port and I prefer 2.
yep, we've gotten this to work, but again only with linu
Jung-uk Kim wrote:
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 01:14 am, Jeff Behl wrote:
Julian Elischer wrote:
Jeff wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by in band. The IP address of the
BMC is assigned via the bios and is different from what the OS
later assigns. With imiptool we can turn on/powercyc
so i poked through the broadcom driver code for linux
(http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php) and found quite a
few mentions of ASF/IPMI in the code. a little research shows that the
Alert Standard Forum (ASF) defines the Remote Management Control Packet
(RMCP) used in IPMI-ove
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 01:14 am, Jeff Behl wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> > Jeff wrote:
> >> I'm not sure what you mean by in band. The IP address of the
> >> BMC is assigned via the bios and is different from what the OS
> >> later assigns. With imiptool we can turn on/powercycle/monitor
>
Michael Vince wrote:
Just out of interest has any one got serial console to work with this
IPMI stuff?
I was looking at regular 9pin serial alternatives since Dell machines
normally only have 1 serial port and I prefer 2.
yep, we've gotten this to work, but again only with linux. it looks
just
Julian Elischer wrote:
Jeff wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by in band. The IP address of the BMC is
assigned via the bios and is different from what the OS later
assigns. With imiptool we can turn on/powercycle/monitor via the BMC
assigned address up until the point where the kernel l
Just out of interest has any one got serial console to work with this
IPMI stuff?
I was looking at regular 9pin serial alternatives since Dell machines
normally only have 1 serial port and I prefer 2.
Regards,
Mike
Bruce M Simpson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Jeff wrote:
I
Jeff wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by in band. The IP address of the BMC is
assigned via the bios and is different from what the OS later
assigns. With imiptool we can turn on/powercycle/monitor via the BMC
assigned address up until the point where the kernel loads. Once it
does, t
On Monday 14 March 2005 07:32 pm, Jeff wrote:
> Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> >On Monday 14 March 2005 02:32 pm, Jeff wrote:
> >> >>it worth posting to -net>
> >>
> >>on a 5.3 amd64 system. anyone have any luck or know anything
> >> about this? i can query variables right up until the point
> >> where the
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> I don't think it's the case of the OS turning off the NIC. We can
> access/monitor/control the chassis via the BMC fine through the bios
> assigned IP address when the computer is off, and when it is booting,
> but lose control when the ke
Jung-uk Kim wrote:
On Monday 14 March 2005 02:32 pm, Jeff wrote:
on a 5.3 amd64 system. anyone have any luck or know anything about
this? i can query variables right up until the point where the
kernel loads, then nothing. ibm is saying this can be caused by
the actual nic driver (the Basebo
Julian Elischer wrote:
I use IPMI with intel boards using the fxp driver.
it seems to work ok..
The only problem I have seen its that is IS possible for the OS to
turn off the
NIC so that IPMI can't be reached..
Usually during a 'suspend' or similar.
On a server you wouldn't do that however.
I do
On Monday 14 March 2005 02:32 pm, Jeff wrote:
> it worth posting to -net>
>
> on a 5.3 amd64 system. anyone have any luck or know anything about
> this? i can query variables right up until the point where the
> kernel loads, then nothing. ibm is saying this can be caused by
> the actual nic dr
I use IPMI with intel boards using the fxp driver.
it seems to work ok..
The only problem I have seen its that is IS possible for the OS to turn
off the
NIC so that IPMI can't be reached..
Usually during a 'suspend' or similar.
On a server you wouldn't do that however.
Jeff wrote:
on a 5.3 amd
on a 5.3 amd64 system. anyone have any luck or know anything about
this? i can query variables right up until the point where the kernel
loads, then nothing. ibm is saying this can be caused by the actual nic
driver (the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) shares the network
interface);
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