Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:10:18 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bce(4) with IPMI Message-ID: <1317323418.2777.14.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1317315666.2777.8.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> References: <1317315666.2777.8.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 10:01 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > We've been getting reports of odd behavior on our Dell R410 machines > when trying to use IPMI. The servers have two NIC's that we have > assigned as the IPMI interface(bce0) and production interface(bce1) > respectively. > > Since we don't actually configure bce0 in FreeBSD, we've found that the > IPMI interface deactivated when bce(4) loads. I assume that the driver > is not initializing the interface correctly in this case and the default > case is to turn the interface off. Does it make sense to completely > turn off the interface when there is an active link on the port, but no > configuration assigned? > > Sean > > p.s. Dell's IPMI implementation is ... um ... more difficult than it > needs to be. > I should probably say, this is freebsd7. So I'll peruse the changelogs and see if 7 is missing something here. sean
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