Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:22:28 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Jeff Behl <jbehl@fastclick.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial/ether console & ramblings Message-ID: <426D5F94.1000302@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <426D5C93.4020802@fastclick.com> References: <E1DQ8ns-000JXj-Is@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <426D4179.1020508@fastclick.com> <426D59F5.4070601@elischer.org> <426D5C93.4020802@fastclick.com>
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Jeff Behl wrote: >>>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... > > I run the intels with FreeBSD OOB without any problems.
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