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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2005
Elie Jreij, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Stephen Cochran, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Ramkrishna Prakash, Austin, TX (US);
Paul W. Vancil, Austin, TX (US);
Elie Jreij, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Stephen Cochran, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Ramkrishna Prakash, Austin, TX (US);
Paul W. Vancil, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An information handling system receives management information from a network, such as IPMI information, with plural network interface cards of the information handling system in a teaming configuration. Upon detecting management information, a network interface card issues an SMBus alert to a management processor of the information handling system. A team module running on the management processor reads the status of the network interfaces to identify the network interface associated with the alert and reads the management information from the network interface. Management information sent to the network is sent through a predetermined one of the network interfaces to ensure that, if teaming gets deactivated at the switch, there will not be multiple NICs with the same BMC MAC address transmitting to the switch.