Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:20:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Jeff Behl <anon1@santaba.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPMI doesn't work... Message-ID: <200503162120.j2GLK9Sm021005@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <42367D57.30009@santaba.com>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
Jeff Behl writes: | that's not the way it's supposed to work, afaik. it'd be silly to tie | the BMC address and the OS assigned address together. you give the BMC | an ip address via a little program that comes from IBM and this address | is independent of the ip address that whatever os you use on the system | assigns to the nic. the redbook that Jung-uk sent a link for shows this | process if you're interested. FYI, you can set the IP configuration for IPMI via ipmitool 1.6. I have a minimal openipmi compatible driver for ipmitool to work on FreeBSD. I need to do some work on it before it can be released. This let's me configure IPMI via FreeBSD without going into the BIOS config tool. Doug A.home | help
Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200503162120.j2GLK9Sm021005>