>> 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
That is supposed to work actually, using a VLAN and a direct connection between BMC and NIC. > 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. For remote management you typically use MAC addresses, not IPv4, so it *should* work. It's all bloody fragile though. > 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. Well certainly not open source OS people ;-) </rant> Segher -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios