I must have installed thousands of Supermicro servers....
My current status - hiding behind the sofa with the light off waiting
for MI${N} to ring the doorbell.On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 16:18, Jeff Johnson <jeff.john...@aeoncomputing.com> wrote: > > I respectfully disagree. The BMCs in modern server designs are plumbed to > every onboard network interface on the motherboard. So it’s not just a matter > of the “dedicated management port”. The chip would have access to every > onboard LAN. If any network was routable to the outside it would be > potentially be able to engage in its designed activities. > > While many HPC environments are walled gardens this chip scandal would impact > “HPC in the cloud” activities. > > Just my $.02 worth > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 07:44 Ellis H. Wilson III <el...@ellisv3.com> wrote: >> >> On 10/04/2018 09:47 AM, Douglas Eadline wrote: >> >> My take-away: >> This will only impact systems where there is a route between the wider >> world and the IPMI ports on your servers. > > > > > -- > ------------------------------ > Jeff Johnson > Co-Founder > Aeon Computing > > jeff.john...@aeoncomputing.com > www.aeoncomputing.com > t: 858-412-3810 x1001 f: 858-412-3845 > m: 619-204-9061 > > 4170 Morena Boulevard, Suite C - San Diego, CA 92117 > > High-Performance Computing / Lustre Filesystems / Scale-out Storage > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
