IPMI and VLANs

[Seshadri_N at Dell.com]

Ok, not sure what would have caused that problem earlier...

seShadri 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Durkacz [mailto:idurkacz at inf.ed.ac.uk] 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 3:51 PM
To: N, Seshadri
Subject: Re: IPMI and VLANs

Seshadri_N at Dell.com wrote:

> Yes, if you have tagged VLANs config'd on switches, you can use BMC 
> with VLAN-ids.

Thanks very much.

I asked, since I have come across various postings on the web that
suggested the use of tagged VLANs in this context could be troublesome,
and I also came across a quirk of my own when using tagged VLANs - see
the post:

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2007-November/033464.
html

In fact, that problem eventually 'went away' after a reboot of the 1950,
and I can no longer repeat it. We *are* now using tagged VLANs on our
BMC's, and using SOL to manage the consoles, but I wanted some
confirmation from Dell that there were no known issues in doing so.

So - thanks for your reply.

Regards,
Ian

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