Being able to ping the interface is not a valid assumption. Many board implementations (Most Dell systems for example) do not support the icmp protocol as that would be code overhead that is not really needed.
Also if it is using a shared Nic setup (i.e. the primary/secondary Nic is also the nic for the ipmi interface) it is very unlikely that you'll be able to hit the ipmi interface via that network interface from the machine of that interface but should be able to from another machine. Without knowing the specific manufacture and board along with some more details (like was this done from the same system or a different one) it's not possible to give you a concrete answer. -----Original Message----- From: Paras pradhan [mailto:pradhanpa...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 11:45 AM To: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Ipmitool-devel] Ipmi help hi, I guess this is the write place to ask. I am working on to setup a fencing using IPMI which is supported in my mother board. I have assigned the ip address to the ipmi , but I am not able to ping the interface. If i do: ipmitool chassis status , it works but if i do [r...@ha1 ~]# ipmitool -I lan -H ipaddress -U admin -P admin chassis status Error: Unable to establish LAN session Error sending Chassis Status command Its' not working. If ipmi is correctly setup, i should be able to ping the ip address assigned to the ipmi right?. The network address of eth0 of my machine and that of ipmi interface is same. What i am missing here? Thanks Paras. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
