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Hi,

>> P.S. -- What's "BMC" stand for?
> Baseband Management Controller.  It's the separate NIC (sometimes it's
> piggy-backed on a NIC) used for remote management of motherboards.
> Usually includes IPMI support.  Depending on the motherboard, it may
> even include support for keyboard/video/mouse redirection and
> serial-over-lan and all that other remote management stuff.
Actually, the board in reference has built-in BMC; it's IPMI managed
and when properly configured it allows user to ssh to its IP and
access things like SOL, chassis power control and other IPMI things
without any IPMI clients. As to video redirection, there's addon for
that, built-in BMC doesn't have anything that fancy. And on point, I
was having similar problems with these boards some time ago, but it
seems it has been fixed somewhere between 8.1 and 8.2.