Oh. I see now, Rich's solution about updated driver. That sounds better. ;-)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC > > > From: Kris Henriksson [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > I've been having a long-standing issue with using the iDRAC on my > > server with OpenIndiana, and I thought before giving up completely, I > > could try asking the mailing list. The problem is that the iDRAC is > > completely inaccessible while OpenIndiana is running. > > > > The system is a Dell PowerEdge T610, with Dell iDRAC 6 Express. If I > > run Linux on it, the iDRAC can be accessed just fine, and before > > OpenIndiana has started booting, I can access it, but with OI running > > it is inaccessible. The DRAC shares a physical network port with the > > OS, but has a separate MAC address and independent network traffic. > > I've seen that before. > > Got over it... I forget precisely how ... I think I had to go into BIOS, and > "disable" the first NIC. This makes it inaccessible to the OS, but not > inaccessible to the iDRAC. Then, obviously, connect two separate ethernet > cables. One for the management interface, and one for the OS. > > Also, if you ping monitor the OS and the iDRAC... It is normal to see the > iDRAC disappear at certain moments during the boot process. So don't > assume it's failed the moment ping begins to fail. Wait for the OS to come up > completely, and perhaps a minute longer. > > Oh yeah ... > > This might be separate, but the built-in broadcom NIC was never stable in > solaris 10 / opensolaris. Symptom was a weird sort of black-screen lockup > while still responding to ping, which occurred approx once a week. We made > this problem go away by buying an add-on Intel server NIC. So it's distinctly > possible, that the actual iDRAC solution is to "disable" both the broadcom > ethernets in BIOS (use only by iDRAC) and only use the Intel NIC in the OS. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
