Hey Corey, I really do think I need to properly establish a session. Do you have any advice where to continue looking?
Boban On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Corey Minyard <[email protected]> wrote: > Boban Petrovic wrote: >> >> Hey All, >> >> I currently work with Renesas H8 IPMC on Sun Monza board. It seems >> to me that anonymous access is disabled, so I would need to use "Get >> Channel Authentication Capabilities", "Get Session Challenge" and >> "Activate Session" commands in order to establish a session in Basic >> Mode for IPMI Serial interface (basically provide proper user and >> password in order to issue other commands to IPMC). This is quite >> possible according to spec, but it is not clear how to format packet >> which needs to be sent to the IPMC in case of these commands. I looked >> at IPMI spec v1.5, section 18.12 for Get Channel Auth Capabilities >> command. It states that I need to append session header to the regular >> IPMI request data but I am not sure how to do this. The session header >> is grayed out and ordering of the bytes within it is not clear. There >> is no example on how this should be done in case of Basic Mode (Direct >> codec). Any information regarding would be appreciated. >> > > It would seem strange that you would channel authentication for this, no > other board I have seen uses that. Are you sure you need this? > > -corey > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
