Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-09-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday 30 August 2008 11:56:01 am Jonathan Bond-Caron wrote: On Fri Aug 29 11:24 AM, John Baldwin wrote: If your BIOS doesn't tell us about the IPMI BMC via ACPI or SMBIOS, you can try using hints (I've seen machines thave a BMC, but the BIOS doesn't bother to tell you about it).

RE: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-30 Thread Jonathan Bond-Caron
On Fri Aug 29 11:24 AM, John Baldwin wrote: If your BIOS doesn't tell us about the IPMI BMC via ACPI or SMBIOS, you can try using hints (I've seen machines thave a BMC, but the BIOS doesn't bother to tell you about it). Dell boxes I've seen have KCS at the default address, so you can

RE: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-30 Thread Jonathan Bond-Caron
On Fri Aug 29 03:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:17:17AM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: Curiously, IPMI shares the ethernet ports with the onboard ethernet controllers without FreeBSD's knowledge. It does use a different MAC address. It is also apparently capable

Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I have a 1950-III 1U on the floor here that I'm loading. After configuring IPMI in the BIOS, I can: [2:6:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ipmitool -I lanplus -U root -H 192.168.221.160 shell Password: ipmitool power on Chassis Power Control: Up/On Now. strike is not the 1U in question... and does not, in

Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:17:17AM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: Curiously, IPMI shares the ethernet ports with the onboard ethernet controllers without FreeBSD's knowledge. It does use a different MAC address. It is also apparently capable of using vlans (haven't tested this yet). I'm

Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-29 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 29 Aug 2008, at 08:44, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...]That said, the feature you're referring to (IPMI piggybacking on top of an existing NIC on the mainboard) is called ASF from a NIC driver perspective. In implementations I've looked at, the interfaces really are distinct hardware

Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Bob Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 29 August 2008 01:33:36 am Jonathan Bond-Caron wrote: Hi Everyone, I have a dell 1750 server with ERA/O card running on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE According to Dell, the ERA card supports ipmi 1.0: http://linux.dell.com/ipmi.shtml But so far no luck with freebsd :/ If your BIOS

IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-28 Thread Jonathan Bond-Caron
Hi Everyone, I have a dell 1750 server with ERA/O card running on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE According to Dell, the ERA card supports ipmi 1.0: http://linux.dell.com/ipmi.shtml But so far no luck with freebsd :/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/sys/i386/conf]# ipmitool -I open channel info 1