[Freeipmi-users] "Connection timed out" error

[Davidson Mike]

I'm a newbie to the world of IPMI and remote management and am trying  
to evaluate FreeIPMI vs ipmitool.  I've downloaded, built and  
installed FreeIPMI v0.3.3 and ipmitool v1.8.9 on a Fedora Core 5  
linux box.  I've been able to successfully query an HP Proliant DL  
145 server (which supports IPMI 2.0) for a variety of information  
over the server's BMC LAN interface using ipmitool.  However, when  
using the FreeIPMI tools (such as ipmi-sensors) I keep getting the  
following error:

$ sudo ipmi-sensors -D lan -h 192.168.43.133 -u admin -p admin
ipmi_open_outofband(): Connection timed out

I've tried using the '-vv' verbose option but I'm not seeing anything  
useful.

Just for comparison, here's the result when I use ipmitool:

$ ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.43.133 -U admin -P admin sensor
ACPI STATE       | 0x0        | discrete   | 0x0100| na        |  
na        | na        | na        | na        | na
CPU0 Pres        | 0x1        | discrete   | 0x0200| na        |  
na        | na        | na        | na        | na
CPU1 Pres        | 0x0        | discrete   | 0x0100| na        |  
na        | na        | na        | na        | na
CPU0 TEMP        | 35.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        |  
10.000    | na        | 66.000    | 68.000    | na
CPU1 TEMP        | na         | degrees C  | na    | na        |  
10.000    | na        | 66.000    | 68.000    | na
SYS TEMP         | 23.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        |  
10.000    | na        | 43.000    | 45.000    | na
CPU FAN1         | 6000.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        |  
3500.000  | 4000.000  | na        | na        | na
CPU FAN2         | 6000.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        |  
3500.000  | 4000.000  | na        | na        | na
CPU FAN3         | 6000.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        |  
3500.000  | 4000.000  | na        | na        | na
....


Not sure what I'm doing wrong...I've been through the man pages for  
the various FreeIPMI utilities and nothing is jumping out at me.  If  
anyone can shed any light on what to try next I'd very much  
appreciate it.

Btw, the 'ipmipower', 'ipmiping' and 'rmcpping' utilities all  
work...I'm able to remotely power the machine on and off.   So I'm  
guessing this might be some kind of configuration/authentication  
issue since only the commands that don't require credentials appear  
to work.  May just be a conincidence.

Thanks in advance.

Mike