From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 19 17:54:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F27916A407 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:54:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D753243DA4 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:54:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:54:46 -0400 id 00056416.45102EE6.0000CE6A Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 19 Sep 2006 13:53:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:54:45 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Paul Schmehl Message-Id: <20060919135445.3718acb1.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <77FB6F5780B514F6DFF40E0B@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <77FB6F5780B514F6DFF40E0B@utd59514.utdallas.edu> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird problem with DRAC 5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:54:55 -0000 In response to Paul Schmehl : > I'm setting up a new server (Dell 1950) that has a DRAC card. My home > network (where I'm working on it in my spare time) is behind a wireless > router, and the internal network is 192.168.2.0/24. The DRAC card's IP > address is 192.168.2.120 (gateway is 192.168.2.1. Mask is 255.255.255.0.) > I can access the DRAC card from the server that it's on (through its IP - > 192.168.2.120), and I can access it from my Windows workstation that is > plugged in to the router just like the DRAC card is (RJ45 cable.) I'm > pretty sure the router's interface is switched (not a hub.) > > I cannot access the DRAC card from my Mac OS X laptop, which is on the > wireless network and has an address of 192.168.2.102. When I try to ping > the DRAC card from the Mac, I get "No route to host. Host is down". If I > ping it from the server or from the Windows box, it responds fine. > > This makes no sense to me. If anyone has a bright ideas what I'm missing, > I'm all ears. These sound like network routing problems. > One other thing. Using the console redirection through the web interface > (which forces you to use IE and an ActiveX control!), I can see the console > fine, but the keyboard and mouse (on the Windows box) don't do anything. I > can still login through the USB keyboard attached to the server, and I can > see the virtualy keyboard and mouse being detected (looking at the console > messages.) > > Has anyone gotten console redirection working (to include keyboard and > mouse functionality)? No. It's broken right now. Do a search on the mailing list and you'll see lots of complaints. It works in 7, and I've been trying to figure out what can be MFCed to 6 in order to get it working there. If anyone has any insight, I'd be interested to hear it. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. **************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. ****************************************************************