Hello,

I thought that I should mention that I'm currently playing around with 
OpenBSD's IPMI-driver and that I'm trying to get it working under 
NetBSD. At the moment, all compilation-errors has been eliminated and 
I'm looking in to how to fully integrate it into NetBSD.

Regards,
Ola

Manuel Bouyer wrote:

>Hi,
>I'd like to buy some servers with real remote-mamangement support (up to now,
>my x86 servers are built on high-end workstation motherboards, without
>real remote management). My ideal system would be managable from LAN
>with standard tools like telnet or ssh, and would give access to the system's
>serial console, as well as power and reset switches. I'm not sure this
>exists.
>
>However most vendors now seems to support the IPMI standard. Is use a custom
>UDP protocol, but maybe some boards also support telnet or ssh connectivity ?
>Also, I'm not sure the console is seen as a serial port on the system side
>(I've seen mails suggesting some supermicro IPMI boards would be snooping
>the video memory for characters, slowing down the whole system).
>
>Has anyone experience with IPMI boards (from any vendors) ?
>
>  
>