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Fred Skrotzki wrote:
> You've not said who's hardware you are using so it is hard to determine
> if you are doing something right or wrong as some have quirks that
> others do not.
>
> The OS settings and ethernet interface used on the machine have nothing
> to do with the BMC's settings (and should not if you think about it).
> It should be a totally separate system so that you can place it in out
> of band if needed. In the lan print 2 statement you provided you can
> see that the default gateway IP is not on the same subnet, it needs to
> be. Depending on implementation it is possible it considers this a huge
> error and will not configure the port properly until it if fixed. We
> have several systems here where if it is not defined right it just does
> not work.
>
> Also in most systems (not all but 90% ish) you can not use the machine's
> network interface to get to the same machines BMC external IP if they
> use the same physical port. If they are using different ports then yes.
> Dell for example uses the first eth port for both the BMC and OS level
> eth. They are stacked on each other and there is not a small buildin
> switch connecting them. So the OS Nic's transmit pair is directly
> connected to the BMC's Transmit pair and wired out so one can't hear the
> other. You can't go out that interface to come back in, it just does
> not work.
Excuse me Fred, I don't want to be boring, but I'm going to be crazy :/
After a lot of trials, without luck, I try to explain the situation, so
that it will be possible, and I hope easy, to give some advice.
The machine where I have a BMC controller has two NICs:
eth0:
ip -> A.B.C.D
MAC -> 00:15:60:ED:DA:CE
eth1:
ip -> 10.0.2.245
MAC -> 00:15:60:ED:DA:CF
the eth1 iface is the NIC that I want to connect to, but I tried to use
also the eth0 iface.
When I run bmclanconf, the MAC address is always setted to
00:15:60:ed:dd:62.
Now, I tried each possible configuration (on eth0 and eth1).
* I tried to set the lan channel with the same ip of my NICs.
* I tried to set the lan channel with a third ip. In this case, I tried
also to force the arp table of the client, where I try to run
`ipmitool -I lan...`:
arp -s 10.0.2.13 00:15:60:ed:dd:62 -i eth1
or, when using eth0:
arp -s A.B.C.E 00:15:60:ed:dd:62 -i eth0
Multiple gateway addresses has been tested with each configuration.
The result is always the same: connection is not established.
Both ipmitool and ipmiping are failing.
The machine is a HP DL 140, and `dmesg` shows:
[ 0.420783] IPMI System Interface driver.
[ 0.420839] ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified KCS state machine at
memory address 0xca2, slave address 0x20, irq 0
[ 0.420909] Could not set up I/O space
[ 0.864879] ipmi: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x000f85, prod_id: 0x0000,
dev_id: 0x00)
[ 0.864983] IPMI KCS interface initialized
[ 0.865034] ipmi_si: Found default KCS state machine at I/O address 0xca2
[ 0.865089] Copyright (C) 2004 MontaVista Software - IPMI Powerdown
via sys_reboot.
[ 0.886055] IPMI poweroff: Found a chassis style poweroff function
I'm thinking to buy some hardware switch, with a web interface to
control my remote machine, but I'm wondering if, failing ipmitool, also
the hardware switch will fail.
For now, thanks a lot for your helps
br
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efphe
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