SW407037 - bmcsetup does not successfully configure the IP (Sev1)ΒΆ

  • Issue: SW407037
  • Reported: 1742C (ibm-v1.99.10-113-g65edf7d-r8-0-g713d86d)
  • Fixed: Fixed in xCAT after 11/07/17 #4242

Issue:

OpenBMC firmware has problems with ipmi inband support of the access on comamnd and the work around is to use the raw 0x06 0x40 instead. In early Sept, we switched to using access on because the implementation looked like it was working, since then we have found some issues with it and recommendation is to revert back to the raw command.

See related issues describing potential problems: * https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/2493 * https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/2492

This problem is very severe because if the network is not configured correctly, the access to the BMC is lost.

Work-around

Use one of the following work arounds:

  1. Install a version of xCAT built after November, 07, 2017 which includes the fix. (Recommended)
  2. Manually patch bmcsetup using changes in PR: https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/4247, then run mknb ppc64
  3. Patch the system with provided patch:
    1. Download patch file: https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/files/1451181/bmcsetup.4242.patch.txt
    2. If file name is /tmp/bmcsetup.4242.patch.txt
    3. cd /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/genesis/ppc64/fs/usr/bin
    4. patch -p0 < /tmp/bmcsetup.4242.patch.txt
    5. mknb ppc64