Re: Semi-OT: ipmitool or ipmicfg: set BMC to use NIC 2

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Jon Pruente wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:16 PM, mark <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The man page isn't helping, nor have I been able to find examples that
>> work.
>>
>> For example, the man page claims I can do ipmitool lan get active, and
>> I try, and it says, "invalid lan command, get".
>
> get isn't a recognized subcommand under lan in the ipmitool I have
> installed.
>
>> Do I set the MAC address for the lan to NIC 2? Anyone have a clue - I
>> do *not* want martians on the real network.
>
> This will be very dependent on your motherboard and its BMC capabilities.
>  Some can do IPMI on specific ports and not others. On the Intel S2600
> series that I use they can use port 1, 2, and a dedicated RMM port, but
> not ports 3 and 4. You'll need to check your mobo suppport docs to see if
> it can even handle IPMI on  the second port. If so, you just configure it
> with the IP setting you want for static, or configure the MAC shown by
> issuing 'lan print 2' in the ipmitool shell. Very often the MACs is
> sequential , so you can guess it by looking at the MACs of the normal
> ethernet ports and adding 1, 2 or whatever.

So you're saying I should set the MAC address for the lan channel 1 to the
MAC address of the second NIC?

       mark

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