On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 11:36 AM, Ante Karamatić
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 4:37 PM Christian Robottom Reis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 01:22:58AM +0000, Christopher Berner wrote:
>> > I have a ASUS RS400-E8-PS2, which has 2 LAN ports for management. One
>> > dedicated to the BMC, and one that's shared with the OS's LAN1. The
>> > dedicated one is mapped to LAN channel 1, and the shared one is mapped
>> > to
>> > LAN channel 8. If I use the dedicated port, MaaS automatic enlistment
>> > works
>> > fine. However, when trying to use the shared port it fails, because
>> > bmc-config returns 0.0.0.0 for the IP address, unless --lan-channel=8 is
>> > used.
>> > I hacked maas_ipmi_autodetect.py to use --lan-channel=8. However, is
>> > there
>> > a better solution? And if not, would you take a patch that attempts to
>> > auto-detect the correct LAN channel to use?
>>
>> Ante, what do you think?
>
>
> Looking at the specifications[1] of the machine, it should have 2 LAN ports
> and 1 BMC port.
>
> I assume this BMC port is then set in sharing mode, where it can be used by
> both OS and the BMC itself. If that's the case, then bmc-config needs to
> identify which channel is used for BMC or it needs to be instructed to look
> to all channels and ignore those that do not have an IP or are not usable at
> all.

I thought so too, but the config guide for that series, interestingly
enough, looks to be the opposite.

See page 5-41 for a screen shot of the BMC network config in the BIOS settings.

and then the rear panel and motherboard diagrams (pages 1-6 and 4-2
respectively).

It does indeed appear that you can either configure the dedicated
management port (DM1) OR a shared, separate port (LAN1) (not sure if
it would allow you to configure them simultaneously though).

I don't believe I have ever seen this sort of network setup before.

Jeff

[1] https://fast.ulmart.ru/manuals/3393739.pdf

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