Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:43:31 +0200 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <zbeeble@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPMI shared ethernet ports (again). Message-ID: <E1L8sl9-000HvW-CR@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <5f67a8c40812051010u55ef6d70m1b4270c98852d87c@mail.gmail.com> References: <5f67a8c40812051010u55ef6d70m1b4270c98852d87c@mail.gmail.com>
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> I posted here a month or two ago about being amazed that some system
> management cards can share a physical ethernet port. Some of you responded
> that it doesn't always work.
>
> Well... I've encountered this and I'm wondering if I can work around it
> somehow.
>
> The ones that work are in Dell 1950-III servers (The R-200 seem to work,
> too). They have "bce" driver ports.
>
> The HP DL/360 that I have here today have "bge" driver ports and the IPMI
> console appears to stop working just as soon as FreeBSD probes the port.
>
> Is this something that can be configured in BGE or is it just not going to
> work?
>
set
hw.bge.allow_asf=1
in /boot/loader.conf
from man bge:
hw.bge.allow_asf
Allow the ASF feature for cooperating with IPMI. Can cause sys-
tem lockup problems on a small number of systems. Disabled by
default.
cheers,
danny
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