IPMI and Dell ERA/O

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Bob Bishop <rb at gid.co.uk> wrote:


> The only problem I have seen on em is that by default the driver resets the
> phy during boot which confuses IPMI; if a SOL console session is active, the
> driver is signalled not to do the reset.


Same here.  The 1950-III that I have has bce cards (2) on the motherboard.
When the kernel probes them, the IPMI interface dissapears for a second or
so. The IPMI documentation seems to imply that either port will talk IPMI
--- but I havn't tested this.

I havn't noticed any problems with the port otherwise.  I'm even bridging
the two motherboard ports right now.