IPMI on localhost

[Kilian CAVALOTTI]

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:06:42 pm Fred Skrotzki wrote:
> Reason it does not work is simple if you think about it.  The BMC nic
> and the Eth0 Nic are wired together so that they each use the same
> transmit pair going out and the same receive pair coming in.  So the BMC
> can't receive what the Eth0 Nic is transmitting.  A switch down the line
> knows that both devices are on the same port so will NOT re-transmit the
> information as that would be bad normally.

Said this way, it makes sense, indeed. :)

Thanks.
-- 
Kilian