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Subject: Re: bce(4) with IPMI
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On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 10:01 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> 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.
> 

I should probably say, this is freebsd7.  So I'll peruse the changelogs
and see if 7 is missing something here.

sean