Today, I had an “accident” configuring my new firewalls IPMI. Okay, I’ll admit. It was a PEBKAC situation: I wanted to configure the firewalls IPMI to use a dedicated network interface, but the option was disabled in the web UI. So I used Chromes debug mode to force-enable the drop-down menu, selected ‘Dedicated’, and saved. After a few seconds, there was an error dialog box on the web interface stating it failed to save the settings. And bam, the remote KVM console was disconnected, and the web interface went dead. A bit of investigation revealed that the IPMI had dropped off the network.

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