[Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool and ifconfig problem

[Maxime P. <Max...@ec...>]

Hello,

I had done some tests with ipmitool where I setup an environment with 
one manager server (Dell poweredge 2850) and two servers (Dell poweredge 
1850) running Sarge Debian Kernel 2.6.11 and Fedora Core 3 2.6.9.

One test that I did, I shutdown the eth0 (ifconfig eth0 down) on both 
servers and from the manager server I ran the ipmitool to power off one 
of them.      
   
I got this error message :
~# ipmitool -P root -U password -H 192.135.1.10 chassis power off
Error: Unable to establish LAN session
Unable to set Chassis Power Control to Down/Off

After that, I reactive the eth0 by doing ifconfig eth0 up and ipmitool 
was able to power off the server.
~# ipmitool -P root -U password -H 192.135.1.10 chassis power off
Chassis Power Control: Down/Off

By the way, the same test works very well on a Sarge Debian Kernel 2.4.  

Ipmitool has some communication issues with kernel 2.6 when doing a 
ifconfig eth0 down.


Regards,


Maxime