Technical Product Specification

IntelP®P RMM Network Connections and Authentication Intel® Remote Management Module
5. Intel
®
RMM Network Connections and
Authenticatio
n
5.1 Network onnectivity
The t es connectivity to the Ethernet. The Intel
®
RMM supports a dedicated,
10/100 Mb/S Davicom Management NIC MAC* on the card itself. The Ethernet MAC is attached
®
board.
 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
 Address Re
 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
 TCP/IP
In addition, the Intel
®
RMM forwards all IPMI UDP/IP (network ports 26Fh and 298h) based
RMCP and RMCP+ traffic to the baseboard BMC via the FML interface.
When the Intel
®
RMM is installed, it configures the BMC network parameters to work in
conjunction with the way the M is configu
5.1.1 Connectivit Example
If the Intel
®
RMM is configured for DHCP, the Intel
®
will configure the baseboard BMC’s
DHCP enable bit to true. Only the Intel® RMM will carry out the actual DHCP protocol and the
baseboard BMC will ignore t state of the DHCP f
The Intel
®
RMM registers itself as one of the following agents for its dedicated NIC:
 ARP
 ICMP
 DHCP
IC.
channel for the BMC. Firmware on the BMC provides the communication protocol that allows
the 802.3 IPMI UDP/IP and DNS traffic.
C
In el
®
RMM requir
to a PHY device on the Intel RMM NIC card via an MII connection routed on the base
When interacting with the Intel
®
RMM NIC PHY, the Intel
®
RMM manages the following network
functions:
solution Protocol (ARP)
Intel
®
RM red.
y
RMM
he lag.
In doing so, the Intel
®
RMM instructs the baseboard BMC not to attempt such traffic on this N
This is accomplished by the Intel
®
RMM by configuring the FML interface as a virtual LAN
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