2950 remote access howto?

[Fred Skrotzki]

With 8th and 9th Gen Dell servers you can NOT use the same IP on the BMC
interface as the computer (I don't know about the other generations as
I've not worked with those directly).  Each interface has it's own
unique Mac address and that will cause IP address conflicts when arp
requests are generated.

The BMC needs it's own IP separate from the server to work.  That is
unlike several other manufactures who use one NIC and Mac address for
the system and BMC.  They are in a continuous sniffing loop for traffic
that should be the BMC's, Issue with that design is that once in a while
the BMC steals and responds to real traffic destined for the computer
and not the BMC interface causing packet errors.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Duncan Hill
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:09 AM
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: 2950 remote access howto?

On Wed, March 21, 2007 13:59, Christof Haerens wrote:

> # ipmitool -l lan -Uroot -a -H 192.168.3.226 power reset
> Password:
> Error: Unable to establish LAN session ipmi_lan_send_cmd failed to 
> open intf Unable to set Chassis Power Control to Reset # # ping 
> 192.168.3.226 PING 192.168.3.226 (192.168.3.226) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 192.168.3.226: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=34.5 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.3.226: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=34.0 ms

Peculiar.  'Works for Me.'

I do, however, never use an IP on the BMC that I'm using on the machine
itself.

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