Dell 1425 IPMI Troubles

[Alex Younts]

Hello,

I did some light searching in the archives and didn't quite find an 
answer to a problem I seem to be having..

To set the IPMI LAN settings I do this from RHEL4 running on a 1425 we 
have:
ipmitool set lan 1 ipaddr 10.0.0.2
ipmitool set lan 1 netmask 255.255.255.0
ipmitool set lan 1 defgw ipaddr 10.0.0.1
ipmitool set lan 1 password blah
ipmitool set lan 1 access on
ipmitool user set password 2 blah

Then, when I try to send a command over a machine with the IP address 
of 10.0.0.3, I get:
Get Auth Capabilities command failed
Error: Unable to establish LAN session
ipmi_lan_send_cmd failed to open intf
Get SEL Info command failed

The network cable is plugged into the first NIC port on the machine. 
Now, here's the interesting part to my dilemma: If I set the BMC to 
get an IP via DHCP (which succeeds), then I can do everything just 
fine. I just can't seem to get the BMC to use a static address.

Has anyone seen this problem or know of a path to go down to see why 
it's not exactly working?

The machine is running RHEL4, kernel version is 2.6.8-42.0.10ELsmp, 
and the OpenIPMI packages are at the latest release (1.4.14-1.4E.17).

Thanks!
Alex Younts
Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
Purdue University