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>> but my whole point is that nothing in 1) works remotely (out of band)
>> when the system and the BMC share the same ethernet controller, at least
>> with the bge driver.  as i mentioned in the thread, i can power cycle
>> and see the serial console remotely (number 2 from above) all the way up
>> to the point where the kernel loads.  as soon as it does, the bge driver
>> no longer shunts off RMCP packets (what IPMI uses) to the Baseboard
>> Management Controller, so no IPMI...
>>  
>>
>
> the intel MBs allow you to share the 10/100 ethernet with the IPMI
> controller.
>

as do the motherboards with the e325s.  we can to everything out of band
when running linux, but that's because the driver for the broadcom nics
in linux are aware of the BMC...