From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 19:29:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DD816A401 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:29:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from a50.ironport.com (a50.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4EC843D58 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:29:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from unknown (HELO [10.251.17.229]) ([10.251.17.229]) by a50.ironport.com with ESMTP; 15 Mar 2006 11:29:13 -0800 Message-ID: <44186B09.8010504@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:29:13 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050727 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Vogel References: <002f01c6479a$696d1510$c802a8c0@BLADESNITZ> <2a41acea0603142307v78f41d86n7523574e26cd7f5f@mail.gmail.com> <4417CE70.5070301@elischer.org> <2a41acea0603150039q168075eakc034defcdd4d783@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0603150039q168075eakc034defcdd4d783@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matt , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPMI During Boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:29:15 -0000 Jack Vogel wrote: >On 3/15/06, Julian Elischer 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 > >