Re: [Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool v1.8.10 and watchdog patch

2008-05-05 Thread Carol Hebert
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:47 +0800, Chun Tian (binghe) wrote: > Hi, developer > > Does IPMItool have any UDP retransmit support? What happened if some > UDP packets lost when communication to remote BMC? > > Regards, > > Chun Tian (binghe) Hi, I'm afraid I don't know right off - I would have

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool v1.8.10 and watchdog patch

2008-05-05 Thread Carol Hebert
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 08:36 -0400, Al Chu wrote: > > Hey Carol, > > > Concerns went beyond that of a remote user unintentionally wreaking > > havoc (although that was brought up ;-}. One main issue is that the > > watchdog timer is simply not safe to be used in the remote manner > > suggested -

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool v1.8.10 and watchdog patch

2008-05-03 Thread Al Chu
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 12:09 -0700, Carol Hebert wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 18:54 -0700, Al Chu wrote: > > Hey Carol, > > > > > I might be missing something here. But how would the watchdog commands > > be any more dangerous than ipmi commands for a power cycle or changing > > boot configura

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool v1.8.10 and watchdog patch

2008-05-02 Thread Carol Hebert
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 18:54 -0700, Al Chu wrote: > Hey Carol, > > I might be missing something here. But how would the watchdog commands > be any more dangerous than ipmi commands for a power cycle or changing > boot configuration? Is the feeling a user would have a greater > likelihood of not

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool v1.8.10 and watchdog patch

2008-05-01 Thread Chun Tian (binghe)
Hi, developer Does IPMItool have any UDP retransmit support? What happened if some UDP packets lost when communication to remote BMC? Regards, Chun Tian (binghe) 在 2008-5-2,上午4:49, Carol Hebert 写道: Hi, First, please let me apologize for not having the 1.8.10 patch-and-outstanding-issues

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool v1.8.10 and watchdog patch

2008-05-01 Thread Al Chu
Hey Carol, On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 17:09 -0700, Carol Hebert wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:11 -0700, Al Chu wrote: > > Hey Carol, > > > > > As you may recall, during the > > > watchdog discussion several months back, we'd decided that full watchdog > > > "set" command support is too dangerous a

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool v1.8.10 and watchdog patch

2008-05-01 Thread Carol Hebert
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:11 -0700, Al Chu wrote: > Hey Carol, > > > As you may recall, during the > > watchdog discussion several months back, we'd decided that full watchdog > > "set" command support is too dangerous and we subsequently had some > > patches pulled from the cvs tree which allowed

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool v1.8.10 and watchdog patch

2008-05-01 Thread Al Chu
Hey Carol, > As you may recall, during the > watchdog discussion several months back, we'd decided that full watchdog > "set" command support is too dangerous and we subsequently had some > patches pulled from the cvs tree which allowed that functionality. I missed the original thread and may not

[Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool v1.8.10 and watchdog patch

2008-05-01 Thread Carol Hebert
Hi, First, please let me apologize for not having the 1.8.10 patch-and-outstanding-issues list completed yet. I had a series of crises to deal with since I posted my intent to get started on this and so was delayed. However, all that is behind me now (knock on wood ;-) and I'm now back to workin