IPMI_PORT(8)

💖 IPMI_PORT 💖

okay bestie, so this is ipmi_port from section 8 of the System Manager's Manual (the sysadmin-y one, you know the vibe) and honestly? she's a tiny little diva with one job and she does it flawlessly. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ipmi_port — a daemon to bind RMCP port 623 to prevent portmap from using it

like. that's it. that's the whole personality. she's a placeholder with main character energy 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ipmi_port [-bx]

two whole flags. iconic. minimalism. she ate 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea, and it's actually kind of important:

This ipmi_port service starts and binds port 623, then sleeps forever, so that the portmap service will not try to reuse port 623 — which it otherwise might try to do. 🫶

and why do we care? because the IPMI firmware snoops the NIC channel and grabs any traffic destined for RMCP port 623. so any application in the OS which tried to use port 623 would fail. 😭

so yeah, she just... sits there. holding the port. forever. not me romanticizing a process that literally does nothing but nap on a socket 😭💀 but honestly? that's the job. somebody's gotta hold the line.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

Command line options are described below. (there are two. we love a short list 🎀)

• -b — Background mode. Convert to a daemon and run in background. Without specifying this option, ipmi_port will run in foreground. so like, if you want her to go do her thing quietly in the back, pass -b. otherwise she's right there in your terminal, watching you. 👀
• -x — Causes eXtra debug messages to be displayed. the "eXtra" with the capital X? iconic choice. lowercase behavior, capital drama. use this when you wanna see everything she's thinking 💬

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole ipmiutil family reunion, go say hi to the cousins:

ipmiutil(8) ialarms(8) iconfig(8) idiscover(8) ievents(8) ifru(8) igetevent(8) ihealth(8) ilan(8) ireset(8) isel(8) isensor(8) iserial(8) isol(8) iwdt(8)

it's giving family group chat that never stops pinging 🔔💜

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🎀 WARNINGS 🎀

See http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/ for the latest version of ipmiutil and any bug fix list.

like, fr fr, check the site before you come for her. bug fixes live there. 🦋

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2009 Kontron America, Inc.

See the file COPYING in the distribution for more details regarding redistribution.

This utility is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. (yes bestie, all caps, they meant it, no warranty no cap 💀)

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Andy Cress <arcress at users.sourceforge.net>

shoutout to Andy, the original main character of this whole thing 🫡✨

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and that's the page!! version 1.0, dated 14 Apr 2010, straight from the System Manager's Manual — go bind that port, bestie, she's counting on you 💖🌸💅