Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:27:14 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bce(4) with IPMI Message-ID: <4E84B882.7040400@quip.cz> 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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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?
I had similar problem few years ago with bge interface. There is
following loader tunable option for it:
hw.bge.allow_asf
Allow the ASF feature for cooperating with IPMI. Can cause sys-
tem lockup problems on a small number of systems. Disabled by
default.
Is it possible that something similar is needed for bce too?
Miroslav Lachman
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