There are two types of shared OS/BMC NICs: 1) Where the BMC and OS have separate MAC addresses (so separate IP addresses). This is the most common. Or 2) The BMC and OS share the same MAC address and the BMC gets only the IPMI traffic to the RMCP port.
Compare the IPMI LAN MAC with your OS MAC from ifconfig to see which it is. If case 2, the IP addresses must match or it will not work (arps will fail, etc.). Andy -----Original Message----- From: Carsten Aulbert [mailto:carsten.aulb...@aei.mpg.de] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 3:32 AM To: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMI LAN interface stops working after upgrade toDebian squeeze... Hi we are using the old venerable PDSML-LN2+ Supermicro boards where the BMC is piggy-backed on top of eth0, thus no dedicated NIC for it. We are finally preparing to upgrade from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze and encounter something very special. During installation we reconfigure the IPMI settings and everything seems ok, but upon the reboot into the freshly installed system, suddenly the IPMI LAN interface stops working. Something in the running system seems to disable this, as it usually (but not always) comes back alive with a reboot (and fails again during system start-up). If I do a regular Debian lenny install everything is working as expected, even after a reboot. I'm currently totally puzzled what could be the root cause. The kernel is exactly the same, only the userland has changed: ipmitool versions: 1.8.9-2 vs. 1.8.11-2 ipmitool lan print/user list/channel ... show only the differences expected (other user name for example). locally ipmitool has no problems accessing the card, remotely neither lan nor lanplus interface works with Squeeze userland. Anyone with an idea, what to test/how to home into this problem? Cheers and thanks a lot in advance Carsten -- Dr. Carsten Aulbert - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Callinstrasse 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Phone/Fax: +49 511 762-17185 / -17193 http://www.top500.org/system/9234 | http://www.top500.org/connfam/6 CaCert Assurer | Get free certificates from http://www.cacert.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
