Note: Much of this article is not original work, but came from the excellent support staff at Pogo Linux. The IPMI interface on a SuperMicro X8DTH-6F motherboard (and presumably other SuperMicro motherboards) auto-selects between binding to the dedicated management port and the first port on the motherboard depending on whether the dedicated port is cabled [...]
Links for February 5, 2009: Eavesdrop your VI-Client traffic – NTPRO.NL – Mentions a new verbose logging option which enables you to intercept the soap traffic between you VI-Client and the vCenter server. VMware KnowledgeBase Article – ESX Server host or virtual machines have intermittent or no network connectivity – "This article provides a series [...]
Use tcpdump and the pflog0 device to view packets in real time: # tcpdump -n -e -ttt -i pflog0 To examine the log file, do the following instead: # tcpdump -n -e -ttt -r /var/log/pflog See PF: Logging for more information.
Microsoft bundles the User State Migration Tool (USMT) with Windows to facilitate moving a user’s settings from one machine to another. When the USMT is enabled, it generates a notable amount of broadcast traffic – two to three packets per second – on UDP port 8 from the new system to 255.255.255.255, port 8: 0000 [...]