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In February 2012, I acquired a number of 1U rack servers for a new project. They have Supermicro PDSML-LN2+ motherboards which have an expansion socket for the Supermicro 1UIPMI-B BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) card.
I got one of these on eBay, and started playing with it. There is actually plenty of good information already available, either via
Supermicro's FTP site or via Google, but I did had a couple of difficult hurdles to overcome.

== IPMI software ==
It looks like there are at least three packages available - ipmitool, freeipmi and ipmiutil. I couldn't see if there
were any significant difference, so I started with ipmitool which is included in the openSUSE distro.

== Configuring the BMC for network access ==
The BMC needs to have the MAC address of the LAN1 interface on the Supermicro board. The IP-address needs to be different from
that of LAN1.

== e1000e crc_stripping ==

== BMC firmware ==
The BMC worked fine locally -

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Per Jessen: Created page with "In February 2012, I acquired a number of 1U rack servers for a new project. They have Supermicro PDSML-LN2+ motherboards which have an expansion socket for the Supermicro 1UIPMI-..."