Gigabyte

Baseboard Management Control

August 21, 2022

Hardware, Networking, Linux

Gigabyte, Supermicro, ASRockRack, BIOS

Baseboard Management Controller is implemented on “enterprise” systems and along with several satellite controllers facilitates access via a platform management system. IPMI is a set of specifications for interacting with these systems. Typically the BMC provides a web interface, but there is also ipmitool which facilitates access over an ssh server running on the BMC. There are “taps” in place to allow for serial based interaction between the BMC and the primary host metal. ...

Tricky Firmware Slowness

May 4, 2022

Hardware, Providers

Gigabyte

For a deployment recently we wanted to create an out-of-band circuit with a root bridge on a server that had the IPMI/BMC of several edge devices connected to it. There was a complexity in that one of the BMCs was remote and was being made accessible via a transparent bridge that had an arbitrary vlan tag set. Maybe its embarrassing to admit, but for these edge devices there was a need to be able to see both ssh (ipmitool) and http (graphical kvm), so these were exposed via wireguard. ...