I can (somewhat) answer this question in the case of Supermicro H8SSL-i
motherboards with the Supermicro plug in IPMI2 card. The situation is
identical to what you describe: the motherboard has two copper gigE ports,
and the IPMI card 'piggybacks' on one of those ports.
The anwer is 'it depends upon your channel bonding implementation'. If
you use IEEE 802.3ad LACP bonding, then the data path between any two
hosts will be on exactly one of the two link aggregated network lines.
The algorithm which determines WHICH line carries the data between those
hosts is determined by the sender and is not specified by the standard.
It is typically a hash of the MAC addresses of sender and receiver, mod N.
Sometimes it is just the XOR of the bottom few bits of sender and receiver
MAC, mod N. Some switches (Force10) let you choose an algorithm. So does
the linux channel bonding driver.
IF the link aggregation algorithm sends data over the line which IS
connected to the IPMI card, then you CAN talk to it. IF the algorithm
sends data over the line which is NOT connected to the IPMI card, then you
can't talk with it.
Bottom line: it's possible but will require time, testing, and
experimentation on your part.
Cheers,
Bruce
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Alan Louis Scheinine wrote:
Since you'all are talking about IPMI, I have a question.
The newer Tyan boards have a plug-in IPMI 2.0 that uses
one of the two Gigabit Ethernet channels for the Ethernet
connection to IPMI. If I use channel bonding (trunking) of the
two GbE channels, can I still communicate with IPMI on Ethernet?
best regards,
Alan Scheinine
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