Supermicro X7SPA-H
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When using this board for a home router is it best to use the Lan port with the IPMI for the internal network and the other one for the WAN interface?
That's how I'm using it. I'd prefer to keep the IPMI LAN port off WAN for security reasons as well. Of course it's password protected and it's probably possible to change the IPMI HTTP port - I don't remember off hand - but still better keeping it on the LAN side. I figured I could always set up a port forward if I wanted to access the IPMI web interface remotely.
i assume i should set the IPMI ip to static since the pfsense box will also be my dhcp server.
Setting it to a static IP is best but it should also pick up a DHCP from your pfsense box as well (i.e. "itself", even though the BMC is really like an entirely different box that just shares that LAN port) though of course when the machine is powered down and you want to get to the BMC you'll need that static IP.
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Thanks allot for clearing that up, my mind is at ease now and i can look forward to the install!
Which version of pfsense are you people running on this board? I'm guessing 2.0-Beta because of the issue 1.2.3 has with the remote keyboard emulation? -
Thanks allot for clearing that up, my mind is at ease now and i can look forward to the install!
Which version of pfsense are you people running on this board? I'm guessing 2.0-Beta because of the issue 1.2.3 has with the remote keyboard emulation?Yep, 2.0 beta. Ran 1.2.3 for a bit as well. I seem to remember that remote keyboard was ok once at the pfsense console but during install the remote keyboard on 1.2.3 would only work if there was already a physical (in my test USB) keyboard attached to the box.
2.0 has worked fine with just the remote keyboard over IPMI.
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Right then i'll make sure to install 2.0 right from the start, thanks again :)
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@Ibor:
Supermicro recommends a PSUs with a 24 pin connector in combination with the X7SPA motherboard
Real nice, considering Supermicro's own 1U cases come with only a 20-pin connector on their power supply. I just got the X7SPA-H this week with the CSE-503-200B case. Can you even get a motherboard with a 20-pin power connector these days? And if so, how will you get it into this case with its non-changeable IO shield?
But I digress. Looking forward to revving this thing up on pfsense 2.0.
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Anyone have problem with SATA? I unable to install, the log show something about GPT invalid or corrupted. Tried on new SSD and old 80GB SATA. Both saying same problem. Another log show GEOM invalid something that have todo with cylinder/head/sector parameter..
Will try to get the log later.
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Anyone have problem with SATA? I unable to install, the log show something about GPT invalid or corrupted. Tried on new SSD and old 80GB SATA. Both saying same problem. Another log show GEOM invalid something that have todo with cylinder/head/sector parameter..
Will try to get the log later.
I had trouble getting a single drive recognized (other drives were fine), but I finally resorted to scrubbing it with dd and all was right after that.
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Here the error
GEOM: ad4: corrupt or invalid GPT detected
GEOM: ad4: GPT rejected - may not be recoverable.Using 2 different disc.. both the same.
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Hello all!
I have the HF model with IPMI and some questions. Has anyone of you managed to have the shared IPMI work when accessed from a different network?
As an example, in a network with WAN, LAN and OPT1 the IPMI is shared with the LAN interface. Is it possible to access the IPMI over the OPT1 interface?
Has anyone actually done that?Thank you!
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I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to access it as you do any LAN host from the OPT1 interface. In other words, the IPMI interface needs to know it's gateway and the firewall must permit your OPT1 host to access the IPMI address on the LAN.