Hi all.
I'm about to start a fresh FreeNAS 9.10 installation. I've got a X10SLM-F motherboard. This board, like many Supermicros, has a dedicated IPMI ethernet interface as well as two LAN interfaces. Until today I tought it would be safe to simply unplug the IPMI cable. However, it will silently fallback to LAN1 if there's no cable plugged into the IPMI connector!
The quick reference guide that came with the board lists jumper JPB1, which "enables or disables BMC" (IPMI). But in the board's user manual there's no mention of JPB1. I was able to locate where the jumper should be on the board, but there's no socket soldered on - just the bare contacts - and I didn't dare shorting the two pins.
The BIOS contains a section for the IMPI configuration ("BMC Network Configuration"). There I found the option "IPMI LAN Selection", which controls this behavior. It is preconfigured to "Failover" (here's a related question about that). Unfortunately, the setting is grayed out and I can't change it (I'm using BIOS v3.0, perhaps I have to update to v3.0a?).
I've setup stronger passwords on the IPMI admin login already, but I would rather not have IPMI exposed to my LAN either way. Right now the easiest workaround is probably to plug in only LAN2, but I'm really curious if somebody knows how to properly configure the board.
P.S.: I originally posted the same question on serverfault.com earlier today, but it doesn't seem to get much love over there.
I'm about to start a fresh FreeNAS 9.10 installation. I've got a X10SLM-F motherboard. This board, like many Supermicros, has a dedicated IPMI ethernet interface as well as two LAN interfaces. Until today I tought it would be safe to simply unplug the IPMI cable. However, it will silently fallback to LAN1 if there's no cable plugged into the IPMI connector!
The quick reference guide that came with the board lists jumper JPB1, which "enables or disables BMC" (IPMI). But in the board's user manual there's no mention of JPB1. I was able to locate where the jumper should be on the board, but there's no socket soldered on - just the bare contacts - and I didn't dare shorting the two pins.
The BIOS contains a section for the IMPI configuration ("BMC Network Configuration"). There I found the option "IPMI LAN Selection", which controls this behavior. It is preconfigured to "Failover" (here's a related question about that). Unfortunately, the setting is grayed out and I can't change it (I'm using BIOS v3.0, perhaps I have to update to v3.0a?).
I've setup stronger passwords on the IPMI admin login already, but I would rather not have IPMI exposed to my LAN either way. Right now the easiest workaround is probably to plug in only LAN2, but I'm really curious if somebody knows how to properly configure the board.
P.S.: I originally posted the same question on serverfault.com earlier today, but it doesn't seem to get much love over there.