Re: [Freeipmi-users] Tyan Thunder S2882 with m3289 bmc module

[Joshua Williams]

Tried both.  The on-board Intel Pro100 card was the only card up and I
used a cross-over cable to connect my laptop directly to the machine.
ipmiping and rmcpping worked fine over the cross-over but the ipmipower
command exhibited the same behavior.

- Josh

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:12:07PM -0800, Bala.A wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can you try ipmipower with the following conditions?
> 
> 1. Bring up ONLY on-board Intel Pro100 card (IPMI).
> 2. Try ipmipower with cross-over cable connected to another machine.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Best Regards
> Bala
> 
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:54:06PM -0600, Joshua Williams wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:40:55AM -0800, Bala.A wrote:
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > > Sorry for the confusion on my end... This is an S2882 and there were
> >> > > actually four ethernet cards in the system.  Three onboard and one
> >> > > PCI (another Intel - eth3).  I was trying to give the BMC the
> >> addresses
> >> > > of the PCI card (eth3).  Once I figured things out I gave it the
> >> > > addresses of the onboard Intel card (eth2) and started using eth2 as
> >> > > the primary network interface, ipmiping and rmcpping started to
> >> work.
> >> > > I can't get 'ipmipower --stat' to work though.  I get the simple
> >> message:
> >> > >
> >> > >        # ipmipower --stat --hostname tomato
> >> > >        tomato: timed out
> >> >
> >> > 1. Your on-board Intel Pro100 card should be up and running with same
> >> IP
> >> > address of BMC in GNU/Linux. This is known problem in SMDC firmware.
> >>
> >> This is true:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# ifconfig eth2
> >> eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:81:2B:0A:AC
> >>           inet addr:10.0.65.3  Bcast:10.0.65.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >> ...
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# bmc-config --checkout
> >> ...
> >> Section LAN_Conf
> >>         ## Possible values:
> >> Unspecified/Static/Use_DHCP/Use_BIOS/Use_Others
> >>         Ip_Address_Source                            Static
> >>         ## Give valid IP Address
> >>         Ip_Address                                   10.0.65.3
> >>         ## Give valid MAC Address
> >>         Mac_Address                                  00:E0:81:2B:0A:AC
> >>         ## Give valid Subnet mask
> >>         Subnet_Mask                                  255.255.255.0
> >>         ## Give valid IP Address
> >>         Default_Gateway_Ip_Address                   10.0.65.1
> >>         ## Give valid MAC Address
> >>         Default_Gateway_Mac_Address                  00:00:00:00:00:00
> >>         ## Give valid IP Address
> >>         Backup_Gateway_Ip_Address                    10.0.65.1
> >>         ## Give valid MAC Address
> >>         Backup_Gateway_Mac_Address                   00:00:00:00:00:00
> >> EndSection
> >> ...
> >>
> >> > 2. Install GNU FreeIPMI in another machine (This machine should be in
> >> same
> >> > network of IPMI machine by on-board Intel Pro100 card).
> >>
> >> Installed on:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# rpm -q freeipmi
> >> freeipmi-0.1.3-0.20041102
> >
> > Sorry, this should have read:
> >
> > address@hidden root]# rpm -q freeipmi
> > freeipmi-0.1.3-0.20041102
> >
> > - Josh
> >
> >> address@hidden root]# ifconfig
> >> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:1F:2A:FC:B4
> >>           inet addr:10.0.3.81  Bcast:10.0.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >> ...
> >>
> >> This is on a 10.0.3.x subnet while the IPMI card is on a 10.0.65.x
> >> subnet.  Should not matter though because as you'll see below, ipmiping
> >> works between the two.
> >>
> >> > 3. Test ICMP ping to IPMI machine.  This should be working.
> >>
> >> This works:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# ping 10.0.65.3
> >> PING 10.0.65.3 (10.0.65.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
> >> 64 bytes from 10.0.65.3: icmp_seq=0 ttl=62 time=0.447 ms
> >> 64 bytes from 10.0.65.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=0.386 ms
> >> 64 bytes from 10.0.65.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=62 time=0.373 ms
> >> 64 bytes from 10.0.65.3: icmp_seq=3 ttl=62 time=0.382 ms
> >> 64 bytes from 10.0.65.3: icmp_seq=4 ttl=62 time=0.365 ms
> >>
> >> --- 10.0.65.3 ping statistics ---
> >> 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3999ms
> >> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.365/0.390/0.447/0.036 ms, pipe 2
> >>
> >> > 4. If ICMP ping is successful, test whether ipmipower, ipmiping and
> >> > rcmpping are working or not.
> >>
> >> ipmiping works:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# ipmiping 10.0.65.3
> >> ipmiping 10.0.65.3 (10.0.65.3)
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=0
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=1
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=2
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=3
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=4
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=5
> >> --- ipmiping 10.0.65.3 statistics ---
> >> 6 requests transmitted, 6 responses received in time, 0.0% packet loss
> >>
> >> As does rmcpping:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# rmcpping 10.0.65.3
> >> rmcpping 10.0.65.3 (10.0.65.3)
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=0
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=1
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=2
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=3
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=4
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=5
> >> --- rmcpping 10.0.65.3 statistics ---
> >> 6 pings transmitted, 6 pongs received in time, 0.0% packet loss
> >>
> >> What fails is ipmipower:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# ipmipower --stat --hostnames 10.0.65.3
> >> 10.0.65.3: timed out
> >>
> >> This should not be an IPMI IP port issue (section 13.1 of freeipmi
> >> documentation) because:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# tail -n 4 /etc/services
> >> # BMC IPMI/RMCP services
> >> rmcp    623/udp         # Aux Bus Shunt (Primary RMCP Port)
> >> rmcps   664/udp         # Secure Aux Bus (Secondary RMCP Port)
> >>
> >> I also have done the following:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# touch -f /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey.new
> >> address@hidden root]# ls --inode /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey*
> >> 3533355 /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey  3533399 /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey.new
> >> address@hidden root]# mv -f /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey.new
> >> /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey
> >> address@hidden root]# ls --inode /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey
> >> 3533399 /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> - Josh
> >>
> >> > Please try these steps and let me know.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > > The S2882 BIOS and the SMDC firware are the latest up to date
> >> versions.
> >> > > The only sign of something amiss is the following bmc-config output:
> >> > >
> >> > > ...
> >> > > Section Serial_Channel
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Access_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Enable_User_Level_Auth>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Enable_Per_Message_Auth>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Enable_Pef_Alerting>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Channel_Privilege_Limit>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Access_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Enable_User_Level_Auth>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Enable_Per_Message_Auth>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Enable_Pef_Alerting>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Channel_Privilege_Limit>
> >> > > EndSection
> >> > > Section Serial_Conf
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Enable_Basic_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Enable_PPP_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Enable_Terminal_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Connect_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Page_Blackout_Interval>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Call_Retry_Time>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Enable_DTR_Hangup>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Flow_Control>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Bit_Rate>
> >> > > EndSection
> >> > > ...
> >> >
> >> > Tyan does not support Serial Channel in BMC.  You can safely ignore
> >> this
> >> > as warnings and they are not related with ipmipower,ipmiping or
> >> rmcpping.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Best Regards
> >> > Bala
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Free as in Freedom
> >> > http://www.gnu.org/
> >
> >
> 
> 
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