Re: [Freeipmi-devel] ipmi_lan_open_session() question

[Albert Chu]

> Yeah that was a typo.... Didn't fix my problem though.

Hmmm.  Does something like 'ipmipower' atleast work?

Al

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----- Original Message -----
From: James Laros <address@hidden>
Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:12 pm
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] ipmi_lan_open_session() question

> On 16:07 Tue 27 Sep     , Albert Chu wrote:
> > Hi Jim,
> > 
> > I think the open_lan_session() function was created a long time 
> ago as a
> > convenience function for libfreeipmi users.  I know that the 
> ipmiutil> author (ipmiutil.sourceforge.net) atleast uses it.  I 
> suppose it has
> > never been used for the FreeIPMI tools because:
> > 
> > A) some tools like bmc-config only work in-band
> > B) some tools like ipmipower need to work more reliably/quickly and
> > therefore "manually" setup a lan session
> 
> This was the first direction I went and hit a bump with extracting the
> temp session id. If I can't get past it I will send out a question.
> 
> > 
> > As for the reason why your code isn't working with MD5, I'm 
> guessing:> 
> > sizeof(password),
> > 
> > should instead be
> > 
> > strlen(password)
> 
> Yeah that was a typo.... Didn't fix my problem though.
> 
> > 
> > ???
> > 
> > > By the way it seems to return < 0 but set errno to Success??
> > 
> > I see a few corner cases in the code.  In particular the fallout 
> case> for "goto error;".  I'll let AB talk about this since its his 
> part of
> > the lib :P
> > 
> > Al
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: James Laros <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 2:51 pm
> > Subject: [Freeipmi-devel] ipmi_lan_open_session() question
> > 
> > > I have a question about the usage of ipmi_lan_open_session.
> > > First off I don't see it used in any of the utilities
> > > that come with the distro? Any reason?
> > > 
> > > I was doing things more "by hand" as in ipmipower until
> > > I noticed this call.
> > > 
> > > More specific question if I use the call as follows the
> > > Activate Session Application Response returns a completion
> > > code of 0xcc (Invalid data field in request)
> > > 
> > > Wasn't sure if I need to pass in something for session_seq_num
> > > or session_id??? In the request message the session_id seems be 
> > > set properly to a temp session id, session_seq is 0 which 
> should be 
> > > ok yes?
> > > 
> > > Note that if I run it with MD5 as an auth type and provide 
> username> > and password I never get an app response.
> > > 
> > > By the way it seems to return < 0 but set errno to Success??
> > > 
> > > ------------------------------
> > > 
> > >    u_int8_t auth_type;
> > >    u_int8_t *username = "root";
> > >    u_int8_t *password = "yada";
> > >    u_int8_t priv;
> > >    priv = IPMI_PRIV_LEVEL_OPERATOR;
> > >    u_int32_t *session_seq_num;
> > >    u_int32_t *session_id;
> > > 
> > >    session_seq_num = (u_int32_t *)malloc(sizeof(u_int32_t));
> > >    session_id = (u_int32_t *)malloc(sizeof(u_int32_t));
> > > 
> > >    auth_type = IPMI_SESSION_AUTH_TYPE_MD5;
> > > 
> > >    if (ipmi_lan_open_session(conn->fd,
> > >                              (struct sockaddr *)&(conn-
> >target_addr),> >                              sizeof(struct 
> sockaddr_in),> >                         IPMI_SESSION_AUTH_TYPE_NONE,
> > >                         //     auth_type,
> > >                              username,
> > >                         //     password,
> > >                         //     sizeof(password),
> > >                         NULL,
> > >                         0,
> > >                              INITIAL_OUTBOUND_SEQ_NUM,
> > >                              priv,
> > >                              session_seq_num,
> > >                              session_id) < 0 ) {
> > >        fprintf(stderr, "Error: ipmi_lan_open_session %s\n", 
> > > strerror(errno));        return -1;
> > >    }
> > > 
> > > -------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > Thanks if anyone can help.
> > > 
> > > Jim
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