Hi

On Wednesday 28 September 2011 19:32:16 Andy Cress wrote:
> It just occurred to me that the OS may be interfering with IPMI LAN by
> trying to also use the RMCP port 623. The Linux portmap service allocates
> any port that is not in use by the OS, so it does not know about IPMI LAN
> RMCP port 623.  If the IPMI firmware and OS share an IP, then this could
> cause conflicts.
> 
> If so, running a service that keeps port 623 allocated will prevent it. 
> See
> http://ipmiutil.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ipmiutil/trunk/util/ipmi_port.c
> ?revision=199 for source to a simple service that does this.
> 
> If not, it could be a firmware problem.

That sound's interesting, I'll have a look (and hopefully can finally come back 
to this after a very long todo list with higher prios).

Thanks for the hint!

Carsten

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