PE860 ipmi over lan locks up

Fri Aug 17 10:50:03 CDT 2007

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 10:32 -0400, Dale Blount wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I have a PE860 running A03 with BMC 1.73 firmware.  I poll it every 5
> minutes for temperature and other sensors.  From the time the power
> cable is plugged in it takes no more than 8 hours before IPMI is
> unresponsive over the LAN (yes, I am polling from a separate machine).
> ipmitool remains working on the local machine using /dev/ipmi0, however.

This was fixed by BMC Firmware A03 (just released publicly yesterday).

Dale