ssh ilo question

[jmc]

On 9/12/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, jmc wrote:
>
> > One really cool feature is "Shared network port".  This means that the
> > iLO Ethernet traffic can run across the NIC1 link, so that it doesn't
> > require an additional Ethernet port for each server.  You can configure
> > an iLO VLAN tag so that the iLO management traffic is kept separate by
> > the ethernet switch.
>
> this one is very nice to see ...
>
>     * Shared Network Port now supports full access to iLO 2 via the
>       browser and scripting interfaces
>
> I thought that iLO-1 supported this already, but someone recently reported
> that as soon as the operating starts up, it was locking him out of the
> SNP?  Do you know if iLO-2 fixes that?  Or are we talking about two
> different things here?


iLO-1 does support Shared Network Port on some platforms, but since it is a
"low-speed" interface, you cannot run the web interface through it -- just
the Telnet/SSH interface.

Also, the patches to the broadcom nic driver were just submitted (2 days
ago?) that allow SNP to work properly with FreeBSD.

-- John