From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 22:47:37 2005 Return-Path: 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 B47CE16A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:47:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A44643D60 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:47:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from [208.206.78.97] (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44BB27A424; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:47:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <423B5A86.7080304@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:47:34 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050218 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Ambrisko References: <200503162120.j2GLK9Sm021005@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <200503162120.j2GLK9Sm021005@ambrisko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: Jeff Behl Subject: Re: IPMI doesn't work... X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:47:37 -0000 Doug Ambrisko wrote: >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. > > I use the OpenIPMI stuff pretty much without change. does what I need.. Allows setting the IP address etc. I was confused about having the same IP address.. we need to do it here (for other reasons) but it's not a requirement of the BMC. >Doug A. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >