Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:01:06 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: bce(4) with IPMI Message-ID: <1317315666.2777.8.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com>
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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.
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