Re: em0 hijacking traffic to port 623

On 5/22/07, Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 May 2007, Jack Vogel wrote:
> > On 5/22/07, Ian FREISLICH <ianf_at_clue.co.za> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you can point me to the propper place or way to effect this.  I
> >> can see situations where someone would not want to turn this filtering
> >> off - if they have the IPMI daughterboard on their motherboard.
> >
> > This is in shared code, so let me forward the issue to the owners of
> > same here and see what they say.
>
> Having em-equipped servers with and without the IPMI modules, I think that
> a sysctl would work wonders.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy

I've verified that the other drivers dont do anything with this, so
its not really
something they'd let into the shared code, but the sysctl idea sounds doable,
let me think this over, I also need to check some internal docs on various
adapters to see if there's harm in any way in doing this.

Jack