Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:47:34 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: Jeff Behl <anon1@santaba.com> Subject: Re: IPMI doesn't work... Message-ID: <423B5A86.7080304@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200503162120.j2GLK9Sm021005@ambrisko.com> References: <200503162120.j2GLK9Sm021005@ambrisko.com>
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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 that whatever os you use on the system >| assigns to the nic. the redbook that Jung-uk sent a link for shows this >| process if you're interested. > >FYI, you can set the IP configuration for IPMI via ipmitool 1.6. >I have a minimal openipmi compatible driver for ipmitool to work >on FreeBSD. I need to do some work on it before it can be released. >This let's me configure IPMI via FreeBSD without going into the BIOS >config tool. > > I use the OpenIPMI stuff pretty much without change. does what I need.. Allows setting the IP address etc. I was confused about having the same IP address.. we need to do it here (for other reasons) but it's not a requirement of the BMC. >Doug A. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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