Jeff Behl wrote: >>>but my whole point is that nothing in 1) works remotely (out of band) >>>when the system and the BMC share the same ethernet controller, at least >>>with the bge driver. as i mentioned in the thread, i can power cycle >>>and see the serial console remotely (number 2 from above) all the way up >>>to the point where the kernel loads. as soon as it does, the bge driver >>>no longer shunts off RMCP packets (what IPMI uses) to the Baseboard >>>Management Controller, so no IPMI... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>the intel MBs allow you to share the 10/100 ethernet with the IPMI >>controller. >> >> >> > >as do the motherboards with the e325s. we can to everything out of band >when running linux, but that's because the driver for the broadcom nics >in linux are aware of the BMC... > > I run the intels with FreeBSD OOB without any problems.Received on Mon Apr 25 2005 - 19:22:29 UTC
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