RE: [Ipmitool-devel] BMC & Server IP Address

[Fusco, J. \(GE Healthcare\) <Joh...@me...>]

I have never been able to get DHCP to work on my Intel SWV7501 MB.  It =
seems to work well when we "manually" set the BMC to the same IP as the =
server.  I would much rather use DHCP or even let the BIOS set it (which =
doesn't work either).  If anyone knows how to make this work, please =
share.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm...@li...
> [mailto:ipm...@li...]On Behalf Of Albert
> Chu
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:09 AM
> To: Padma naban
> Cc: ipm...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] BMC & Server IP Address
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> > Cannot we have the BMC & Server to have the same IP address. Is=20
> > there any disadvantage in it?
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> In my experience the major disadvantage is system management.  As an
> example, on one of our 1024 node clusters we used to configure the BMC
> IP address identically to the server address.  When we would=20
> move nodes
> around, we would change the server IP, but sometimes forget to change
> the BMC IP, so we would have a BMC IP address that was identical to a
> different machine's server IP address.  As you can imagine, multiple
> machines advertising the same IP can cause problems.
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> I think using different IP addresses is "safer", but this all=20
> depends on
> your environment.  I suppose most people will never move=20
> machines around
> and change IPs like we might.
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> Al
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> Albert Chu
> ch...@ll...
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Padma naban <sto...@ya...>
> Date: Thursday, March 10, 2005 1:47 am
> Subject: [Ipmitool-devel] BMC & Server IP Address
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> > Can anyone clear my doubts..
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> > Is it necessary for the BMC IP Address to be different from the=20
> > server IP address.=20
> > if so what is the reason?
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> > Cannot we have the BMC & Server to have the same IP address. Is=20
> > there any disadvantage in it?
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> > thanks,
> > Padmanaban
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