BMC over LAN (which interface)

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:07:50AM -0400, Shane Presley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On most of our PowerEdge 1850s, we have enabled IPMI Over LAN, and
> setup an IP for our BMC on the same subnet as gigabit ethernet 0
> (eth0).  That works fine.
> 
> Not using any VLANs.
> 
> However I'm confused about how I would setup our PowerEdge 6800s.
> They have several quad port NICs installed, as well as the two
> onboard.
> 
> So the interesting thing is that the way RedHat enumerated the NICs,
> eth0 is actually a quad card interface.

name_eths will fix that. :-)
 
> Our onboard gigabit ethernet 0 is actually eth16.
> 
> So what interface would our BMC IPMI over LAN need to be on?  Is it
> always the physical onboard gigabit ethernet 0?  Or is it the0, as
> defined by RedHat?

It's always the onboard gigabit ethernet 1 (per the label Gb1).  Linux
doesn't even know the BMC LAN port exists.

Thanks,
Matt

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