From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 21:53:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5667016A41F for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:53:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1BA543D46 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:53:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 84713 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Aug 2005 21:53:44 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=OGUyeP20nABMrESI6PH9kd6wTBddGEnZbxauoggzMLQL56AtYHgHSun0ft035O9i9ZwLf6EipoANwH6Rd9uQjhb0ywzx1yDvcTkUcrt8/6LPmNFjhPDCkhNFK+j3SdW5kM+9T3wMqJvezyTghzrqksEL2iCVnmA2O4q0tSGgU7A= ; Message-ID: <20050822215344.84711.qmail@web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.47.89.83] by web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:53:44 PDT Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:53:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom To: dpk , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050822133149.Y71377@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: OT: Supermicro IPMI 2.0 boards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:53:45 -0000 --- dpk wrote: > I wasn't able to find anything about this on > Google unfortunately. Hoping > that if this thread can determine the problem, > others will be able to find > it. > > We ordered a whole batch of servers which have > the IPMI 2.0 board (I am > pretty sure). When they first come online they > seem to have the MAC > 00:30:48:12:34:56 . Then at some point they > take on the real NICs MAC > address. > > The problem is that some of them aren't, and > the IPMI 2.0 boards do not > seem to be supported/working under FreeBSD yet. > The older versions of the > board did work previously, using the 'freeipmi' > port. On these servers the > tools just hang indefinitely. > > The situation is getting more serious as it may > be causing spanning tree > problems. We're getting warnings from our > switches every 15 seconds about > 00:30:48:12:34:56 being swapped from port to > port and switch to switch. > While on the servers themselves, I'm seeing a > steady stream of: > > 13:37:37.023915 arp who-has 192.168.1.113 tell > 192.168.1.113 > 13:37:37.119740 arp who-has 192.168.1.113 tell > 192.168.1.113 > 13:37:37.213317 arp who-has 192.168.1.113 tell > 192.168.1.113 > 13:37:37.271162 arp who-has 192.168.1.113 tell > 192.168.1.113 > 13:37:37.522533 arp who-has 192.168.1.113 tell > 192.168.1.113 > 13:37:37.720931 arp who-has 192.168.1.113 tell > 192.168.1.113 > > If I bring up that IP on one of the servers, > dmesg fills up with entries > about other servers claiming the IP for their > own. Most of the entries > have the real MAC address, and some of them > have the 12:34:56 entry: > > arp: 00:30:48:83:0b:4a is using my IP address > 192.168.1.113! > arp: 00:30:48:83:0c:38 is using my IP address > 192.168.1.113! > arp: 00:30:48:83:0b:e2 is using my IP address > 192.168.1.113! > arp: 00:30:48:12:34:56 is using my IP address > 192.168.1.113! > arp: 00:30:48:83:aa:84 is using my IP address > 192.168.1.113! > arp: 00:30:48:83:0c:04 is using my IP address > 192.168.1.113! > arp: 00:30:48:83:0c:06 is using my IP address > 192.168.1.113! > > FWIW, we don't use the 192.168.1 block anywhere > on our network, so none of > us know why it picked that particular IP > address. > > I realize this is totally off-topic but I'm > hoping others have been using > these servers and may know a solution to the > problem. If this message is > totally inappropriate please feel free to reply > off-list. In that case I'd > collect the replies and post the solution > somewhere (giving credit > obviously). > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list A more important question is: why did you "order a whole bunch of servers" without testing one first? A curious approach to computing. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com