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Re: Debian stable on iDRAC-driven hardware

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My server uses iDRAC 6, and I have been told no update is available.
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*B. R.*

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:01 AM, B.R. <reallfqq-debian@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I own a dedicated server hosted on hardware with an iDRAC (Dell)
> middleware.
>
> Fiddling with network configuration (attempting to configure a bridge with
> libvirt to replace the current direct physical interface configuration), I
> took the host machione down.
> The technicians are unable to help me on the software-configuration level,
> but they say there are conflict with the current version of iDRAC and some
> Linux kernels.
>
> Here is my (redacted) network configuration:
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> #auto eth0
> #iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> iface eth0 inet manual
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet dhcp
>     bridge_ports    eth0
>     bridge_stp      on
>     bridge_maxwait  0
>     bridge_fd       0
>
>
> ​I crashed the machine down​ when addind the following snippet (providing
> IPv6):
> #iface br0 inet6 static
> #   address     2001:***
> #   netmask     64
> #   pre-up      dhclient -cf /etc/dhcp/dhclient6.conf -pf
> /run/dhclient6.eth0.pid -6 -P -v eth0
> #   pre-down    dhclient -x -pf /run/dhclient6.eth0.pid
> #    bridge_ports    eth0
> #    bridge_stp      on
> #    bridge_maxwait  0
> #    bridge_fd       0
>
> Note this part worked perfectly well when configured for eth0 as follow:
> iface eth0 inet6 static
>    address     2001:***
>    netmask     64
>    pre-up      dhclient -cf /etc/dhcp/dhclient6.conf -pf
> /run/dhclient6.eth0.pid -6 -P -v eth0
>
> ​What did I do wrong?​
> ---
> *B. R.*
>

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