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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
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Subject: Re: IPMI doesn't work...
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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.

Doug A.