Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE

[Paul Schmehl]

Is anyone using the Dell DRAC 5 cards on 6.1-RELEASE?  I played with it 
over the weekend and couldn't seem to get it working.  Then, last night, it 
suddenly started working.  (I can access the web admin interface now.)  For 
some reason, I couldn't ping the card at all, even though I used STATIC and 
assigned  known good IP, netmask and gateway.  Then, for no apparent 
reason,it started working, after another reboot.  (Needless to say, my 
confidence in the card isn't exactly soaring.)

The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm 
wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality working 
under linux emulation.  If so, how did you install the rpm?  And which 
emulation did you use?

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/