serial/ether console & ramblings

[Julian Elischer]

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...
>>> 
>>>
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>>>
>>the intel MBs allow you to share the 10/100 ethernet with the IPMI
>>controller.
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>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.