bce(4) with IPMI

[Matthew Franz]

I have a pair of brand new R410's I've been using for CARP+PFSYNC
pair. I believe the LOM was disabled by default and have not tried to
use it, IIRC. Been using bce0 as the outside interface with no issues
and bce1 as the sync....

I'm running FreeBSD 8.2 though. I can get more details about the
hardware if it would be helpful...

- mdf

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Sean Bruno <seanbru at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 10:01 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
>> We've been getting reports of odd behavior on our Dell R410 machines
>> when trying to use IPMI.  The servers have two NIC's that we have
>> assigned as the IPMI interface(bce0) and production interface(bce1)
>> respectively.
>>
>> Since we don't actually configure bce0 in FreeBSD, we've found that the
>> IPMI interface deactivated when bce(4) loads.  I assume that the driver
>> is not initializing the interface correctly in this case and the default
>> case is to turn the interface off.  Does it make sense to completely
>> turn off the interface when there is an active link on the port, but no
>> configuration assigned?
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> p.s. Dell's IPMI implementation is ... um ... more difficult than it
>> needs to be.
>>
>
> I should probably say, this is freebsd7.  So I'll peruse the changelogs
> and see if 7 is missing something here.
>
> sean
>
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