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From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: IPMI shared ethernet ports (again). 
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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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