> > Hi, > > I'm still trying to work out my IPMI problems and I was > wondering if anyone could make suggestions on the following. > I have a server out at a data center its a dual AMD 254 > Operton box on a Tyan m/b with Broadcom NetXtreme > BCM5721 nics (using tg3 driver). [...] > > I can access the box via IPMI over the LAN without problems > when it is up and running, but for some reason it is falling > down every so few weeks (running FC5 and it seems to be a > problem with the aacraid driver in 2.6.17 ..). When it does I > can't get any commands through at all, including a reset, > which was our entire reason for getting the IPMI support on the box. >
My guess would be, that the Broadcom driver leaves the NIC in an unusable state for out of band access during the Linux panic/stop. If I recall this correctly, the BMC can recover from this by re-initializing some parameters of the NIC over I2C. This could be done periodically or with some magic detection (like the gratitious ARP's not getting out of the NIC). Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
