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Date:      Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:54:45 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Jeff <anon1@santaba.com>
Cc:        Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com>
Subject:   Re: IPMI doesn't work...
Message-ID:  <42364E75.8030205@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <42362D37.6010202@santaba.com>
References:  <4235E6CC.7040909@santaba.com> <200503141747.57487.jkim@niksun.com> <42362D37.6010202@santaba.com>

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Jeff wrote:

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> I'm not sure what you mean by in band.  The IP address of the BMC is 
> assigned via the bios and is different from what the OS later 
> assigns.  With imiptool we can turn on/powercycle/monitor via the BMC 
> assigned address up until the point where the kernel loads.  Once it 
> does, the BMC no longer responds.  This doesn't happen with the two 
> linux distros we've tried it on.  Wtih both, including SuSE, we can 
> still query/control via the BMC using ipmitool.  It seems to be some 
> sort of driver issue to me.  I find it confusing that the NIC is 
> shared between the BMC and the OS, but I guess that's just how it's 
> done.  Perhaps the bsd broadcomm driver is simply blocking this 
> somehow...


you have to assign it the same address!

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> jeff
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