-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It cant be the same. Have you configured all network options on ipmitool lan ? [root@athos ~]# ipmitool lan print 1 IP Address : 172.16.1.101 Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0 And you need to create a user with ADMINISTRATOR rights: [root@athos ~]# ipmitool user list 1 ID Name Callin Link Auth IPMI Msg Channel Priv Limit 1 true false true ADMINISTRATOR 2 root true true true ADMINISTRATOR And (i think) you cant ping your LOCAL ipmi address, but you can ping a remote one. [root@athos ~]# ping -I bond0 172.16.1.102 PING 172.16.1.102 (172.16.1.102) from 172.16.1.1 bond0: 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from <a href="http://172.16.1.102">172.16.1.102</a>: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=72.6 ms Hope its help. - -- Flávio do Carmo Júnior aka waKKu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: <a href="http://getfiregpg.org">http://getfiregpg.org</a> iEYEARECAAYFAklL1fAACgkQgyuXjr6dyktOngCfbGu8k2FsWfSL4BA0d7gw5Z2d F4gAn3im/76NDF930GBbVJxtTzkb7n3P =ygAl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Paras pradhan <<a href="mailto:pradhanparas@gmail.com">pradhanparas@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi. I am working on to setup a fencing using IPMI which is supported in my mother board. I have assigned the ip address to the ipmi , but I am not able to ping the interface. If i do: ipmitool chassis status , it works but if i do [root@ha1 ~]# ipmitool -I lan -H ipaddress -U admin -P admin chassis status Error: Unable to establish LAN session Error sending Chassis Status command Its' not working. If ipmi is correctly setup, i should be able to ping the ip address assigned to the ipmi right?. The network address of eth0 of my machine and that of ipmi interface is same. What i am missing here? Thanks Paras. -- Linux-cluster mailing list <a href="mailto:Linux-cluster@redhat.com">Linux-cluster@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster</a> </blockquote></div>