IPMI to Onboard LAN1

[kirkdickinson]

I am wanting to set my IPMI to Onboard LAN1 instead of Failover. I need the IPMI to work on the same port as the regular LAN at least for now.

I found in the bios where it says Failover, but there is no way to change it from there. I can't find a setting in the IPMI interface.

I know this is changeable, but can't seem to find it. At a loss??

Thanks,

Kirk

 

[depasseg]

On mine it's under Network -> LAN interface. Change it to Shared.

LAN Interface: This feature allows the user to select the port to be used for IPMI out-of-band communication.

• The default setting is Failover, which will allow IPMI to be connected from either the shared LAN port (LAN1/0) or the dedicated IPMI LAN port. Precedence is given to the Dedicated LAN port over the shared LAN port.
• Select [Dedicated LAN] for IPMI to connect through the IPMI Dedicated LAN port at all time.
• Select Shared LAN for IPMI to connect through the LAN port on the board.

 

[kirkdickinson]

Where? There isn't a Network tab in my BIOS. Under IPMI there is a setting called BMC Network Configuration, that is what I provided the screen capture of. No place to change the setting there.

In the IPMI management interface there is Configuration -> Network, but no setting there for LAN Interface.

 

[depasseg]

 

[kirkdickinson]

Duh!! I feel stupid. I didn't see that. Thanks.

 

[depasseg]

Does it work now?

 

[jgreco]

Duh!! I feel stupid. I didn't see that. Thanks.

Don't feel bad. The amount of nonobvious involved in all of this is pretty high at times.

 

[kirkdickinson]

Yes, it is working now. I have an empty box that is now working on my network. Maybe it is time to put some drives in and start setting up the storage.

IPMI is really cool. I didn't know anything about this when I started down this road to FreeNAS.

 

[jgreco]

Welcome to the cool kids club.