Owners Manual

Network interface settings
Complete the following after the switch boots:
1. Go to the BMC console and check the network interface settings.
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 54:BF:64:A9:E7:C9
inet addr:xxx.xx.xxx.xx Bcast:xxx.xx.xxx.xxx Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::56bf:64ff:fea9:e7c9/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2495 errors:1 dropped:837 overruns:0 frame:1
TX packets:442 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:494108 (482.5 KiB) TX bytes:60152 (58.7 KiB)
Interrupt:2
2. Pin the gateway to confirm that the link is up and functioning.
ping xxx.xx.xxx.xxx
PING xxx.xx.xxx.xxx (xxx.xx.xxx.xxx): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from xxx.xx.xxx.xxx: seq=0 ttl=255 time=10.000 ms
64 bytes from xxx.xx.xxx.xxx: seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from xxx.xx.xxx.xxx: seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.000 ms
Configure BMC network manually
NOTE:
The BMC out-of-band (OOB) network or LAN is not enabled for Trade Agreement Act-qualified (TAA) switches.
The BMC OOB is enabled for non-TAA-qualified switches.
Use the following to configure the BMC network manually. Enter the service tag number in upper case.
1. Log in to the BMC-IPMI console using your sysadmin/admin or superuser credentials.
2. Edit the /etc/network/interfaces file.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address xxx.xx.xxx.xx
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast xxx.xx.xxx.xxx
gateway xxx.xx.xxx.xxx
3. Replace the IP network info with your IP network address, then run the following command to restart network service:
/etc/init.d/networking restart
If you reboot the BMC, you may lose the network information. In this case, you must start all over again because the BIOS
is not configured. Without the BIOS configured, each time you reboot BMC, the system fetches the information from BIOS
configuration and refreshes the interfaces file.
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