On 15/10/10 20:53, Drew Weaver wrote:
We don't want the management NIC or traffic to be visible to the operating system for security reasons.
It won't be - the OS never sees traffic destined for the BMC, it goes directly from the NIC chip to the BMC, and doesn't hit the PCIe bus which is attached to the main computer, so it's pretty much invisible (and it'd be encrypted anyway, and you can enforce encrypted-only coms). The BMC gets its own MAC and IP address (these days, older IPMI implementations did it differently).
I use IPMI and SoL exclusive - don't bother with the DRACs - don't need them (and you can't get them on Tyans or Intels or HPs, whereas I can use ipmitool on everything).
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