The Broadcom 5721 NIC comes with IPMI capability. We use Dell PE850's which are equipped with dual onboard Broadcom 5721J NICS. One of the NICS has IPMI built in. You set up the IPMI in the BIOS-IP address, username, password-and then you can access over the same CAT5 cable. The regular ethernet and the IPMI have separate MAC addresses even though they share the same physical hardware. We use DHCP to set up all the network interfaces including IPMI. I have found it very useful for checking hardware error logs and rebooting crashed boxes remotely. Its worth noting that Dell rack servers come with IPMI, rails and cable management arms-all extras with Sun.
Tony Ladd Chemical Engineering University of Florida _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
