On 2/26/07, Segher Boessenkool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your (server-class) machine has a networked IPMI BMC > then you can do remote reset with it just as well if the > machine runs LinuxBIOS as it would with the vendor BIOS. > Well it *should* work, who knows :-)
yep, it certainly ought to work, ... It will fail if: 1) IPMI cpu shares an ethernet port with the main system 2) remote controller has timed out the ARP entry for the system you are trying to reset because the IPMI CPU does not respond to ARP. So, the IPMI CPU -- which controls power and reset -- depends on the host CPU -- the one running Linux, which may be hung -- to operate. Unbelievable. You're much better off depending on a watchdog timer than IPMI. IPMI has not worked out. From reading the standard, I would have to guess the folks who wrote it are not really OS people -- but I'm guessing. ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
