On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:24:26AM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:07 +0100, Paul Jakma wrote: > > Firmware 'near' the NIC (I've never seen an explanation of the exact > > mechanism) interposes itself between hardware and OS and 'hijacks' > > traffic to that port. It never makes it to the OS. > > one implication of this is that, when this is in use, the NIC cannot be > part of a L2 aggregation (because the upstream switch will load-spread > some of the management traffic flows to other ports in the aggregation). > > And using it with other L2/L3 redundancy technologies (such as IPMP and > OSPF-MP) is going to be tricky (the shared management IP address must > not be seen as reachable via other NICs).
My impression was that the AMT chip gets its own IPv4 address.
