Roland Dobbins wrote: > > On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > >> I have two older Dell servers that only give you the option of a >> shared ethernet port for their >> onboard IPMI, take it or leave it. > > So, you can use the built-in port for that, and insert another NIC for > use on the production side, yes? >
One could, but the single PCI-X (yes there's one and only one, not two) slot is taken by a RAID card and the other onboard GE port is being used for SAN access. ;) For the OP, yes, do use a dedicated port even though it can drastically expand your cabling and switching needs if you have a lot of servers. Port sharing is a horrible, horrible hack. ~Seth _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
