[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC

[Rich]

What NIC does the machine have?

My solution on Rx10 with the BCM NICs was to grab the bnx driver blob from
Joyent [
https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/tree/master/overlay/generic/kernel/drv/amd64/bnx]
and throw that in /kernel/drv/amd64/bnx, bootadm update-archive, and
reboot. The BMC works great with that driver loaded and not the stock one.

[I have a ticket about this for Dell R815s -
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1552 ]

- Rich


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Kris Henriksson <kth48 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
> One effect of this is that the DRAC cannot get an IP address from
> DHCP. Monitoring network traffic from another machine, I can see the
> DHCP requests going out (so I can assume outgoing traffic is okay).
> Running tcpdump back on the OI machine I don't see the outgoing DHCP
> requests, but I see the incoming replies. However, it appears the
> replies are not being received by the iDRAC.
>
> I am not very familiar with Solaris, and so I'm somewhat out of my
> element. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I would greatly
> appreciate it. I could not find any record of such a problem with
> repeated Google searching, so I'm perplexed.
>
> Thanks,
> Kris Henriksson
>
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