View source for Working with a Supermicro 1UIPMI-B BMC

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 -