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Subject: Re: IPMI doesn't work...
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Julian Elischer writes:
| Jeff wrote:
| > I'm not sure what you mean by in band.  The IP address of the BMC is 
| > assigned via the bios and is different from what the OS later 
| > assigns.  With imiptool we can turn on/powercycle/monitor via the BMC 
| > assigned address up until the point where the kernel loads.  Once it 
| > does, the BMC no longer responds.  This doesn't happen with the two 
| > linux distros we've tried it on.  Wtih both, including SuSE, we can 
| > still query/control via the BMC using ipmitool.  It seems to be some 
| > sort of driver issue to me.  I find it confusing that the NIC is 
| > shared between the BMC and the OS, but I guess that's just how it's 
| > done.  Perhaps the bsd broadcomm driver is simply blocking this 
| > somehow...
| 
| you have to assign it the same address!

Huh?  The IPMI IP address and host OS IP address does not have to
be the same.  I have them set different on the Dell boxes here.
They have different MAC addresses.  What you mean they have 
to have the same address?

Doug A.