From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 30 16:05:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1A01065678 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:05:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbondc@gmail.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7C88FC1D for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:05:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbondc@gmail.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so714662yxb.13 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:05:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:references :in-reply-to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:thread-index:content-language; bh=KTqs9C5h+AOQonJDM1Op374W4o4Kjak9GAHyc3YWl44=; b=mZgbhhXyua/4i8U5jSyU3P4U6+RxKa7FUwRPKx+U6/UtUxSnH3PaOxu0blZDZy686V yZuMIBp1ZQldxNptDDtGYdM5jICuU6o1HoNdZgbR2iB3WJ4aZ2Yj7rBO3ZB3jYbXVhDT D8yBKpJjbj3qUeC7S07tVnAQPTTs+lAMCmpjY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:references:in-reply-to:subject:date:message-id :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer :thread-index:content-language; b=YbG4D/d+PG1E9UblDq5LgfHAILVFkj75Zd4Ift0fNunrx/eEkTe9QzK1h6cIImCqqA cc3tvjDfWTSSda4xOJ6xMd2vhX1ythEZGZWvD0sgs5+bc9LlV6Cci9Isld5Vbw5blmGD cncPXBiaKqwW5M1qvwxWcszqEuOxWZKwIMs0M= Received: by 10.151.109.17 with SMTP id l17mr5970061ybm.98.1220112337098; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbondc ( [24.203.97.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm4542070ywc.9.2008.08.30.09.05.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:05:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan Bond-Caron" To: "'Jeremy Chadwick'" , "'Zaphod Beeblebrox'" References: <004701c90998$c9d70240$5d8506c0$@com> <5f67a8c40808282317nd523102qae37ec584f3c0d2@mail.gmail.com> <20080829074437.GA67295@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20080829074437.GA67295@icarus.home.lan> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:05:34 -0400 Message-ID: <002d01c90aba$3d1aef60$b750ce20$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AckJqxhjaOvLfgVBSCWln6sq9QKG0gAPNk0A Content-Language: en-ca Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: IPMI and Dell ERA/O X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:05:38 -0000 On Fri Aug 29 03:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:17:17AM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> Curiously, IPMI shares the ethernet ports with the onboard ethernet >> controllers without FreeBSD's knowledge. It does use a different MAC >> address. It is also apparently capable of using vlans (haven't >> tested this yet). I'm most nervous about how this might behave if >> the port was being nailed with traffic --- but I can't easily test >> this to my satisfaction. What controls the contention for the port >> between whatever IPMI magic is going on and the OS use of the port? > > That said, the feature you're referring to (IPMI piggybacking on top > of an existing NIC on the mainboard) is called "ASF" from a NIC driver > perspective. The NIC driver for the OS *must* have full awareness of > said piggybacking, and if it doesn't, a couple different things can > happen: > Thanks for the info, the "ASF" functionality seems to be what Dell uses with the ERA/O, DRAC etc.. cards, http://www.dmtf.org/standards/documents/ASF/DSP0114.pdf (picture on page 6 says it all) Although I fixed my problem with: vi /boot/device.hints hint.ipmi.0.at=isa0 hint.ipmi.0.mode=KCS I'm curious about hw.bge.allow_asf=1 hw.bge.allow_asf=0 It doesn't seem to have any effect on a Dell 1750, any details on how it can affect IPMI, or point me to the discussions I'd like to keep http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/IPMI with as much accurate information as possible