IPMI doesn't work...

[Julian Elischer]

Doug Ambrisko wrote:

>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.
>  
>


I use the OpenIPMI stuff pretty much without change.
does what I need..
Allows setting the IP address etc.

I was confused about having the same IP address..  we need to do it here
(for other reasons) but it's not a requirement of the BMC.


>Doug A.
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