Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:29:13 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: Matt <matt@successfulhosting.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPMI During Boot Message-ID: <44186B09.8010504@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0603150039q168075eakc034defcdd4d783@mail.gmail.com> References: <002f01c6479a$696d1510$c802a8c0@BLADESNITZ> <2a41acea0603142307v78f41d86n7523574e26cd7f5f@mail.gmail.com> <4417CE70.5070301@elischer.org> <2a41acea0603150039q168075eakc034defcdd4d783@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Jack Vogel wrote: >On 3/15/06, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: > > >>Working with intel (TM) motherboards using the Intel Gb chips, >>and talking to the intel reps last year (for my previous employer) I was >>led to believe that >>these chips supported IPMI by giving the BMC a back door into the same >>NIC that the >>OS was using. >>(using an I2c (SMB) interface) >>On the machines I used, I am pretty sure the bios gave the same MAC >>address to the BMC >>side of things as the OS side of theings by default, and we had is set >>up so that we used the >>same IP address also. >> >> > >well, i'm not positive about the MAC thing, but I am quite sure that on >IBM xSeries systems you assigned a different IP address to the BMC, >this was done in the BIOS. And, when I think about that, if it did have >a seperate IP address then it musta had a seperate MAC too... > >Course, that was IBM hardware. I'll have to check up on this more >at work tomorrow. > >So Julian, are you saying that you have seen this kind of functionality >work on FreeBSD?? > > yes, though as I said, I'd have to break intop my old emplyer's custommer's premmisses to absolutly confirm that they has teh same MAC address.. :-) It's my memory though that they did.. they definitly has the same IP address. and yes, it did work. the OS got a copy of incoming packets for the BMC but a firewall rule fixed that quick enough. >Cheers, > >Jack > >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?44186B09.8010504>