Jon Pruente wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:16 PM, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> The man page isn't helping, nor have I been able to find examples that >> work. >> >> For example, the man page claims I can do ipmitool lan get active, and >> I try, and it says, "invalid lan command, get". > > get isn't a recognized subcommand under lan in the ipmitool I have > installed. > >> Do I set the MAC address for the lan to NIC 2? Anyone have a clue - I >> do *not* want martians on the real network. > > This will be very dependent on your motherboard and its BMC capabilities. > Some can do IPMI on specific ports and not others. On the Intel S2600 > series that I use they can use port 1, 2, and a dedicated RMM port, but > not ports 3 and 4. You'll need to check your mobo suppport docs to see if > it can even handle IPMI on the second port. If so, you just configure it > with the IP setting you want for static, or configure the MAC shown by > issuing 'lan print 2' in the ipmitool shell. Very often the MACs is > sequential , so you can guess it by looking at the MACs of the normal > ethernet ports and adding 1, 2 or whatever. So you're saying I should set the MAC address for the lan channel 1 to the MAC address of the second NIC? mark