It's a moderately small change to support the vlan tag setup on IPMI 2.0 devices. The biggest problem is in the case where it would be used, it's actually fairly spotty.
For example, last time I looked, if you set a service processor to use a tagged vlan on an igb based device, the traffic would not be passed if the driver loaded and no one did a 'vconfig add' on the nic. In that scenario I personally couldn't seriously recommend the configuration (for one, it makes it more blatantly obvious there is little meaningful separation of the NIC VLAN from the service processor vlan, for another I'm wary of strategies which require the OS to be configured and run *just right* for the systems management to work...). If my view of the world is outdated or a significant number of people think I'm too picky, I can add the vlan config option. From: Arif Ali <m...@arif-ali.co.uk> To: "Mailing list, xCAT" <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>, Date: 05/01/2012 02:13 PM Subject: [xcat-user] vLAN on ipmi interface All, are there any plan to support vLAN on the ipmi interface at all? regards, -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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