From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 04:08:18 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 C4AAC16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:08:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p4.roq.com (ns1.ecoms.com [207.44.130.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E2743D1F for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:08:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from p4.roq.com (localhost.roq.com [127.0.0.1]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E118A4D43B; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:08:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.46.52] (s0D26.static.pacific.net.au [203.100.254.38]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 989B44D415; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:08:19 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <42365FBB.2070404@roq.com> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:08:27 +1100 From: Michael Vince User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050303 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce M Simpson References: <4235E6CC.7040909@santaba.com> <42360DB2.5000500@elischer.org> <42362BA8.5000502@santaba.com> <20050315013029.GA7949@empiric.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20050315013029.GA7949@empiric.icir.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: Julian Elischer cc: Jeff 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: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:08:18 -0000 Just out of interest has any one got serial console to work with this IPMI stuff? I was looking at regular 9pin serial alternatives since Dell machines normally only have 1 serial port and I prefer 2. Regards, Mike Bruce M Simpson wrote: >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > > >>I don't think it's the case of the OS turning off the NIC. We can >>access/monitor/control the chassis via the BMC fine through the bios >>assigned IP address when the computer is off, and when it is booting, >>but lose control when the kernel loads (the bios assigned ip address is, >>of course, different from what OS assigns). It seems odd to me how the >>BMC shares the NIC, but maybe this is normal...I'm new to IPMI. >> >> > >I can only speak for looking at the Intel gigabit chip datasheets and >our em(4) driver somewhat, but there are registers which control the >'pass through' which IPMI uses. It could be that the bge driver is >unaware of the registers Broadcom added to support IPMI. > >In this case we'd need to find out what they are and teach the driver >not to meddle with them. > >Regards, >BMS >_______________________________________________ >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" > >