IP-less IPMI

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Johan 
> De Meersman
> Sent: 23 June 2006 18:16
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: IP-less IPMI
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to configure IPMI without configuring an IP, 
> so that it simply responds to whatever packages get sent it's 
> way by the switch ?
> 
> Hmm... not sure wether that sentence is intelligible :-) I 
> would like to, well, have IPMI without configuring it - if 
> the server's IP is 192.168.0.2, the switch will throw any 
> packets for that towards it anyways, so can I have IPMI pick 
> them up without having to configure it to the server's IP as well ?
> 
> johan
> 

Hi,

This is not possible, the BMC controller has it's own network interface card with it's own mack address. If you send an ipmi packet to the servers IP 102.168.0.2 then arp will resolve this IP into the NIC's MAC address not the BMC's MAC address.



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Harald Jensås