It sounds as if the ethernet driver is configuring the device in a way that is incompatible with the BMC. It would take some digging to figure out exactly what is going on, if that is the case. ethtool might be able to do something, but it would be guessing.
-corey On 09/06/2011 08:54 AM, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > > I'm thoroughly confused now, I'm trying to summarize my current knowledge/the > status: > > In the past we used 172.26.16.73/12 for eth0 and 172.27.16.73/12 for the BMC > (same mac address) which works under Debian Lenny but not under Squeeze. > > If I disable eth0 via ifdown/ifconfig BMC responds almost immediately to lan > requests (both lan/lanplus interfaces) > > If I enable eth0 via ifup/ifconfig again, BMC stops responding at once. > > It does not matter if I set the IP addr. of the BMC to the one of eth0, or use > multiple IP addresses (eth0:0) > > It does not matter if I unload all ipmi modules. > > I tested it with the stock Debian kernel, a self built 2.6.32.y kernel (same > one used for Lenny, also rebuilt for Squeeze), also 3.0.3 showed the same > problem. > > I tried different libc6 as ifconfig seems only to interact with it (2.7, 2.11 > and 2.13) to no avail. > > right now, I'm completely out of ideas, what to test as well. I'm still > suspecting the user land which might be responsible here. but I don't know > what. > > Cheers > > Carsten > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
