I've having a weird problem. Last week I installed the latest drivers for my Supermicro IPMI card (the new RMCP drivers), and also installed the latest Intel NIC drivers for Windows. Now the card won't talk to the network anymore--no gratuitous ARP being generated, no ARP responses being generated, and IPMI traffic sent to the card by using a hard-coded ARP table entry is getting ignored too. Somehow or another the IPMI card and the Intel NICs have gotten disconnected from each other.
I put Linux on another partition, and ipmitool via the openipmi drivers shows that the card is operating correctly. The LAN channel is showing up fine, the users are fine, everything looks good from ipmitool. The only problem is that no network I/O is making it into the card. This is true regardless of the host OS in use (or not in use for that matter); nothing makes it into the card if I'm running Windows, Linux, or just sitting at the BIOS, or if the machine is powered off. My suspicion here is that the Intel drivers did something to the NICs or the management interface which is keeping the IPMI card from talking to the card (Intel loves management interfaces and they may have installed an SMBUS driver or the like as part of the 10.4 driver installation). I'm not getting anywhere with supermicro support in this area so I need to tackle this from the other direction if possible. In short, is there a way for ipmitool to force the BMC to generate network traffic? If that succeeds then the problem may expose itself. If it fails then the error may shed light on where the problem is. Thanks -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
