[Ipmitool-devel] 1.8.6 problems

[Steffen G. <ste...@ae...>]

Hi,

I'd been using version 1.8.2 for a while until I ran into problems with
remote authentication, but at that time 1.8.6 had been released, and since
there was no Debian package yet, I went to build my own. It took a while
to find out that I'd have to provide libcrypto (which is in libssl-dev)
to get the lanplus interface built (which is a prerequisite for SOL) - 
but I'm still unable to use the "shell" command. (ipmitool help doesn't
list it either, thus it's not built in.) Which build requirement has to
be met to get shell functionality?

Another issue: I'd like to boot into the BIOS setup (got a H8DAR-T with
AOC-1UIPMI-B card), but "ipmitool chassis bootdev bios" would return
  Set Chassis Boot Parameter 5 failed: Invalid data field in request
- cdrom, disk, none, safe and diag *do* work. Is the BNC unable to boot
into BIOS, or is there a bug in ipmitool?

Even after enabling hardware flow control, I'm still getting binary stuff
when flooding the SOL console - looks like shifted _bits_ (and things 
return to normal in between, and at the end of the find run, so the 
shell prompt is looking innocent again). Could be both ends of the 
transmission; I suspect a bug in the RMCP+ firmware (rev 2.1, the one
from 2.03beta).

I found that BMC time is drifting a lot. Is there a way to synchronize
it to the system clock?

Cheers,
 Steffen
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