Hi, I'm happy to report that the firmware 1.50 release has resolved the trouble we were having with iDRAC6 (Express and Enterprise).
Cheers, Tom On 7/9/10 4:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi there, > > A colleague of mine saw this very same behaviour (on either an r410 or > r610), with a bit of hacking around we determined that the driver in the > linux kernel running on the iDRAC, not the system was at fault. I > believe he was also investigating whether the issue was related to the > amount of network traffic on the interface. I will have a chat with him > for you to see if he managed to solve it or come to any other > conclusions, but he's on leave at the moment. > > > James Adams > Systems Administrator > Peta-Scale Computing and Storage Group > Science& Technology Facilities Council > Rutherford Appleton Laboratory > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Rockwell > Sent: 08 July 2010 21:16 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: iDRAC6 Express on PE R610? > > Hi, > > To reproduce, I do the following: > > - reboot node > - enter iDRAC6 Express confguration > - reset to default configuration > - enable IPMI over LAN, set ip address, netmask, gateway and root > password > - exit and reboot > - press f2 to enter setup screen, leave node sitting at this screen > > The above is OS independent, AFAIK. > > The iDRAC6 becomes pingable at start of second reboot. It stops > responding to pings after 3 to 10 minutes. Results are similar with the > > OS Scientific Linux 5.4 running. > > BIOS is 1.3.6, iDRAC6 Express FW is 1.30.7 (I think I saw that > correctly). Have also tested with a 2.X BIOS. > > The iDRAC6 has no VLAN configured, the switch port has an untagged VLAN > setup. It may be that the VLAN has traffic on it that confuses the > iDRAC? I'll try an isolated VLAN for the iDRAC. > > We don't understand if we have some network issue, there is a firmware > bug, a combination of these two, or something else going on. > > Thanks, > Tom Rockwell > > On 7/7/10 11:47 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Hi, >> Can you provide following information to understand more on this >> issue >> >> 1: Operating system used on R610 >> 2: Is there any VLAN configured for iDRAC and Host OS >> 3: Which iDRAC FW version are you using >> 4: Does the ping failure observed after Server starts or once the OS >> starts >> >> Thanks& Regards >> >> Shine K A >> Product Group >> Dell | Bangalore Development Center >> Phone: +91 80 280 77756 >> Mob: +91 9448175422 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Rockwell >> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 8:16 AM >> To: linux-poweredge-Lists >> Subject: iDRAC6 Express on PE R610? >> >> Hi, >> >> We have some poweredge r610 nodes with the iDRAC6 Express card. We > want >> >> to use them with the first NIC shared between OS and the DRAC. > However, >> >> the DRAC falls off the network (stops responding to pings) shortly > after >> >> starting up. We have just tried with an iDRAC6 Enterprise using the >> dedicated port and this is stable. Anyone using the shared port >> configuration with iDRAC6 Express? Any "tricks" to making this work? >> >> Thanks, >> Tom Rockwell >> Michigan State U. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge >> Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
