IPMI MAC address all zeros after update

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I've updated a SuperMicro X7SPA-HF-D525 to IPMI firmware version 3.12.

I've tried setting the MAC address with the BIOS, ipmicfg and ipnmac.

Is there a fix for this?

Best Answer

You can set the IPMI NIC MAC address with the ipmitool utility (http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/) available for Linux (rpm/deb), Windows, Solaris and FreeBSD here: http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/FILES/

The following command will set the MAC address:

ipmitool lan set <channel number> macaddr <xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx>

In my case, the IPMI NIC's MAC address had been zeroed out (reason unknown). The MAC address of what it was supposed to be was a sticker on the motherboard. However, during my limited testing, I was able to set the MAC address to anything and that was good enough for IPMI to work properly.

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