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ipmilan(8)	    IPMI LAN to System Interface Converter	    ipmilan(8)

NAME
       ipmilan - IPMI LAN to System Interface Converter

SYNOPSIS
       ipmilan [-c configfile] [-i ipmidevice] [-d] [-n]

DESCRIPTION
       The  ipmilan  daemon allows an IPMI system interface using the OpenIPMI
       device driver to be accessed using the IPMI 1.5 LAN protocol.

       ipmilan supports the full authentication capabilities of the  IPMI  LAN
       protocol.

       ipmilan	supports multiple IP addresses for fault-tolerance.  Note that
       messages coming in on an address are always sent back out on  the  same
       address they came in.

OPTIONS
       -c config-file
	      Set  the	configuration  file  to	 one other than the default of
	      /etc/ipmi_lan.conf

       -n     Stops  the  daemon  from	forking	 and  detaching	 from the con‐
	      trolling terminal. This is useful for running from init.

       -d     Turns  on	 debugging  to standard output.	 You generally have to
	      use -n with this.

CONFIGURATION
       Configuration is accomplished through the file  /etc/ipmi_lan.conf.   A
       file with another name or path may be specified using the -c option.

       The following fields are used in many commands:

       boolean May be "true", "false", "on" or "off".

       priv  An IPMI privilege level.  This may be "callback", "user", "opera‐
       tor", or "admin".

       auth An IPMI authorization type.	 This may be "none" for no authentica‐
       tion,  "straight"  for  straight, in-the-clear password authentication,
       "md2" for use MD2 message digest authentication, or "md5" for using MD5
       message digest authentication.

       addr IP-address [UDP-port]
	      IP-address specifies the IP address to use for an IP port. Up to
	      4 addresses may be specified.  If no address  is	specified,  it
	      defaults	to  one	 port  at  0.0.0.0  (for  every address on the
	      machine) at port 623.

	      UDP-port specifies an optional port to listen on. It defaults to
	      623 (the standard port).

       PEF_alerting boolean
	      Turn PEF alerting on or off (not currently supported).

       per_msg_auth boolean
	      Turn per-message authentication on or off.

       priv_limit priv
	      The maximum privilege allowed on this interface.

       allowed_auths_callback [auth [auth [...]]]
	      auth  specifies  allowed	authorization  levels for the callback
	      privilege level.	Only the levels specified  on  this  line  are
	      allowed  for  the	 authorization	level.	 If  this  line is not
	      present, callback authorization cannot be used.

       allowed_auths_user [auth [auth [...]]]
	      auth specifies allowed authorization levels for the user	privi‐
	      lege  level.  Only the levels specified on this line are allowed
	      for the authorization level.  If this line is not present,  user
	      authorization cannot be used.

       allowed_auths_operator [auth [auth [...]]]
	      auth  specifies  allowed	authorization  levels for the operator
	      privilege level.	Only the levels specified  on  this  line  are
	      allowed  for  the	 authorization	level.	 If  this  line is not
	      present, operator authorization cannot be used.

       allowed_auths_admin [auth [auth [...]]]
	      auth specifies allowed authorization levels for the admin privi‐
	      lege  level.  Only the levels specified on this line are allowed
	      for the authorization level.  If this line is not present,  user
	      authorization cannot be used.

       user usernum enabled username password max-priv max-session [auth [auth
       [...]]]
	      usernum specifies the user number for the user.  Note that  user
	      number  0	 is  invalid, and user number 1 is the special "anony‐
	      mous" user, whose username is ignored.  This value may be up  to
	      63,  the	maximum	 possible  IPMI	 user.	 If you want anonymous
	      access, you must have a user number 1.

	      enabled is a boolean that specified whether the user is  enabled
	      or not.

	      username specifies the name of the user, specified as a name.

	      password	specifies  the	password  of  the user, specified as a
	      name.

	      max-priv specifies the maximum privilege level allowed  for  the
	      user.

	      max.sessions  specifies  the  maximum number of session the user
	      may open.

	      auth specifies the allowed authorization	types  for  the	 user.
	      Only  the	 specified ones are allowed, so if none are specified,
	      the user will be disabled.

       guid name
	      Allows the 16-byte GUID for the IPMI LAN connection to be speci‐
	      fied.   If  this	is not specified, then the GUID command is not
	      supported.

       Blank lines and lines starting with `#' are ignored.

SECURITY
       ipmilan implements normal IPMI security.	 The default is no access  for
       anyone,	so  the	 default  is pretty safe, but be careful what you add,
       because this is access to control your box.  straight and  none	autho‐
       rizations  are  not  recommended, you should probably stick with md2 or
       md5.

SIGNALS
       SIGHUP
	    ipmilan should handle SIGHUP and reread it's configuration	files.
	    However,  it  doesn't  right now.  It might in the future, for now
	    you will have to kill it and restart it.   Clients	should	handle
	    reconnecting in this case.	If they don't, they are broken.

ERROR OUTPUT
       At  startup,  all  error	 output goes to stderr.	 After that, all error
       output goes to syslog.

FILES
       /etc/ipmi_lan.conf

SEE ALSO
       ipmi_ui(1)

KNOWN PROBLEMS
       Currently, ipmilan does not implement writing the  config  file.	  IPMI
       commands	 to  change configuration options are accepted, but the perma‐
       nent writing of the changes does not currently work.

AUTHOR
       Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.org>

OpenIPMI			   05/13/03			    ipmilan(8)
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