I'll double check this today and verify. Will the IPMI on the motherboard only work with the onboard ethernet controllers, or will it get its grubby little hands on any/all controllers it finds? If it only
The IPMI configuration screen gives you the option of configuring which Interface to bind to, at least on some models, and on others it defaults to the the first onboard.
Like I said, you can use tcpdump(8) with an "address" or "host" syntax of the IPv4 of the IPMI address. Trying enabling it and pinging it, watch for the ICMP to/from the IPMI host, which will strangely and bizzarely appear to be on the same ethernet segment as the interface visible to the OS.
It's like having a IP Alias configured that you can't see >:}}} I like to VLAN tag my IMPI stuff. God hates the BOFH. ~BAS
works with the onboard, then maybe switching to the PCI card ports will be a sufficient workaround.
