Re: [Ipmitool-devel] SOL 'timeout' using a Tyan M3291

[James P. <ja...@mo...>]

As I've already reported to Vernon, works fine for me.

Thanks

James Pearson

Vernon Mauery wrote:
> James Pearson wrote:
> 
>>OK ... please let me know if you get something to release.
> 
> 
> Here is a patch for you to test out.  It worked for me on my setup.  It was made
> against the latest ipmitool cvs code.
> 
> --Vernon
> 
> 
>>Vernon Mauery wrote:
>>
>>
>>>James Pearson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Sorry to ask again, but if you do have such a patch available, then I
>>>>would really like to give it a go as I currently can't make decent use
>>>>of SOL using ipmitool
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I am working on something, but don't have anything to release quite yet.
>>>Unfortunately, I can't get SOL working at all right now.  I was
>>>working on this
>>>very issue about 2 months ago and got side tracked.  In the mean time,
>>>someone
>>>else on my team hijacked the machine I was working on and flashed the
>>>BMC,
>>>changed the settings, and in general wreaked havoc on my setup.  Now I am
>>>struggling to get SOL working at all.  As soon as I do 'sol activate'
>>>it says
>>>'Info: SOL payload disabled'.
>>>
>>>--Vernon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>James Pearson
>>>>
>>>>Vernon Mauery wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>James Pearson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm having problems with SOL connections disconnecting when using
>>>>>>ipmitool to a Tyan M3291 SMDC on a S2891 motherboard i.e.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>% ipmitool -I lanplus -H test1 -U Admin sol activate
>>>>>>[SOL Session operational.  Use ~? for help]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This works fine - but if I leave it sitting at the prompt for a short
>>>>>>while (a couple of minutes) and then try to do anything - e.g. press
>>>>>>return, I get:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Error sending SOL data
>>>>>>SOL session closed by BMC
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If I run something that continually writes to the screen (e.g. "top"),
>>>>>>then it doesn't close the session.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm using ipmitool from CVS (downloaded last week)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Is this a known problem/issue? Is there anyway I can keep the (idle)
>>>>>>connection open for longer?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>We have found this to be the case with our servers too.  The IPMI spec
>>>>>says in
>>>>>section 6.12.15 that it is okay to close an idle LAN session after 60
>>>>>seconds
>>>>>(+-3 seconds).  It also says that a remote console can optionally
>>>>>use the
>>>>>'Activate Session' command periodically to ensure that the session
>>>>>does not get
>>>>>dropped.  We were planning on submitting a patch for this, but we
>>>>>haven't gotten
>>>>>around to it yet. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>--Vernon
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>>James Pearson
>>
>>
>>
>>
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