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Configuration of the Shared Network Port "0"

The shared network port of a 7063-CR2 HMC is the right port of the quad Ethernet card (to the left of the USB ports) and is labeled “0” on the chassis. In the image below, this port is marked ETH0:

HMC 7063-CR2 rear view - dedicated IPMI (M) port and shared ETH0 (0) port

Configuring this port for the BMC is possible via Petitboot. To do this, the HMC must be booted by Reboot, Ctrl-Alt-Del or switching it off and on .

The menu item “Exit to shell” must then be selected in Petitboot:

Petitboot - Exit to shell
Petitboot - Exit to shell

An IP address can be configured with the ipmitool command. The shared network port is addressed by ipmitool via “lan 1” (“lan 2” is the dedicated BMC network port).

The current configuration can be displayed using “ipmitool lan print”:

# ipmitool lan print 1
Set in Progress         : Set Complete
Auth Type Support       :
Auth Type Enable        : Callback :
                        : User     :
                        : Operator :
                        : Admin    :
                       : OEM      :
IP Address Source       : DHCP Address
IP Address              : 0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask             : 255.255.255.255
MAC Address             : 07:83:de:18:5c:46
Default Gateway IP      : 0.0.0.0
802.1q VLAN ID          : Disabled
Cipher Suite Priv Max   : Not Available
Bad Password Threshold  : Not Available
#

First, a static IP address should be set, in our case 172.168.99.17 with netmask 255.255.255.0 and default gateway 172.168.99.1:

# ipmitool lan set 1 ipsrc static
# ipmitool lan set 1 ipaddr 172.168.99.17
Setting LAN IP Address to 172.168.99.17
# ipmitool lan set 1 defgw ipaddr 172.168.99.1
Setting LAN Default Gateway IP to 172.168.99.1
# ipmitool lan set 1 netmask 255.255.255.0
Setting LAN Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0
#

The BMC should then be reachable via this IP address:

$ ping 172.168.99.17
PING 172.168.99.17 (172.168.99.17) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 172.168.99.17: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.735 ms
64 bytes from 172.168.99.17: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.483 ms
64 bytes from 172.168.99.17: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.521 ms
^C
--- 172.168.99.17 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.483/0.579/0.735/0.114 ms
$