Subject: Re: IPMI experiences anyone ?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/16/2006 16:49:18
der Mouse writes:
> > The service processor on those Sun machines is running Linux on a
> > PowerPC (4XX?) CPU and can be accessed through ssh. I don't know
> > which ssh version (1/2) it supports.
>
> If you have access to one, use telnet or netcat or some such to connect
> to its port 22. Look at the banner. It'll begin something like one of
>
> SSH-1.4-....
> SSH-1.99-....
> SSH-2.0-....
>
> (The stuff I've represented as "...." is implementation-specific
> software version guff, ignorable for the purposes at hand.)
>
> The "1.99" indicates a version which supports both ssh1 and ssh2.
> Otherwise, the only version supported is the part before the dot. (The
> part after the dot, as in 1.4 or 1.5, probably means something, but the
> ssh1 protocol is almost undocumented; you'd likely have to go to the
> source to figure out what.)
The Sun v40z here claims:
SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.4p1
when I telnet to port 22. On the LOM it says:
localhost $ ssh -v
OpenSSH_3.4p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090703f
Later...
Greg Oster