[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC

[Kris Henriksson]

Outstanding! I do have the BCM NIC, and trying the driver you
mentioned works like a charm.

I've updated the bug you referenced to say that it also affects my system.

Thank you so much,
Kris

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Rich <rercola at acm.jhu.edu> wrote:
> 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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