Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Free IPMI Capabilities?

[Albert Chu]

> May I ask if your tool suit, Free IPMI, has the capability of modifying a BMC 
> Firmware Binary File, prior to flashing on a chip such that the the final 
> firmware modifications will have the end user's MAC Address information 
> embedded thereby avoiding the above nightmare scenario?

No.  We leave firmware flashing to the motherboard manufacturer.
FreeIPMI is predominantly for end users.

> If this is not possible, do you know of any open source software to 
> accomplish this?

I'm not aware of anything.

Al


On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Mark Bennette <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam;
>
> I work at the TSD of a Server Motherboard Manufacturer/Reseller.  We often
> run into issues where end customers, corrupt, or alter, the BMC CHIP
> Firmware, e.g. forgotten password, MAC Address issues, such that they end up
> requesting that we send them another BMC chip, with their board's MAC
> Addresses, pre-configured in the CHIP.  This is a laborious task, first
> having to download the firmware, flashing the chip, via EPROM device, then
> installing the chip in a compatible machine, then resetting the info in the
> chip to factory defaults and finally confirming via router DHCP Table the
> validity of the process, e.g. MAC Addresses displayed.
>
> May I ask if your tool suit, Free IPMI, has the capability of modifying a
> BMC Firmware Binary File, prior to flashing on a chip such that the the
> final firmware modifications will have the end user's MAC Address
> information embedded thereby avoiding the above nightmare scenario?
>
> If this is not possible, do you know of any open source software to
> accomplish this?
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Bennette
>
>
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