On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Massimo Gaggero wrote:
> Hi, > I'm using ipmitool on IBM x3455 machines. It works well, until I > send to BMC the command > 'bmc reset cold'. After that, BMC loose the lan channel as 'ipmitool lan > print' and ' > ipmitool lan print 1' say: > > # ipmitool lan print > Invalid channel: 255 > # ipmitool lan print 1 > Channel 1 is not a LAN channel > > I've done all kind of reset but BMC still doesn't see the lan channel. > I've done cold reset on three machines > and all have lost the lan channel. > > Another problems is that on these IBM x3455 I have 3 NIC, 2 onboard and > one PCIe. > On some machines IPMI traffic goes through the second onboard NIC, on > some other on the PCIe NIC > and in few cases it goes through one of the onboard NIC with the MAC > address on the PCIe. I've seen similar probles with Intel BMCs. I suggest to play with the ARP settings. Try to disable GARP. If that does not work then play with the GARP interval. Which switch are you using ? Some switches are rather dump and don't handle the BMC's GARPS well. Check out what's happening on the switch in terms of port mapping. It's quite possible that in your case the switch is dropping the BMC traffic. Matthias > > Someone can explain me what does the command 'bmc reset cold' really do > and how can resume IPMI operation > on the BMC resetted? > > Massimo. > > -- > ____ ____ ____ _ _ > / ___)| __ \/ ___)/ /| | Dott. Massimo Gaggero > | (___ | /\___ \\__ | Expert Software Engineer > \____)|_|\_\(____/ |_| Advanced Computing and Communications - Distributed > Computing > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +39 070 9250 329 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Ipmitool-devel mailing list > Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
