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Re: [Freeipmi-users] Re: BMC IP
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Al Chu |
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Re: [Freeipmi-users] Re: BMC IP |
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Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:20:13 -0700 |
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 14:56 -0700, Al Chu wrote:
> The IPMI card cannot really be considered a network card. The best it
> can be considered is a packet sniffer. It sits on your motherboard's
> ethernet NIC and will "eat up" and respond to IPMI packets. It can do
> nothing else.
Let me re-phrase this actually, since I may have said something things
that could be mis-interpreted.
"If an ethernet card has an IPMI interface, it cannot be considered to
have two network interfaces. There is only one. The IPMI interface
should be considered more of a packet sniffer. It sits on your
motherboard's ethernet NIC and will "eat up" and respond to IPMI
packets. It can do nothing else."
Al
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