[ale] Anyone using Supermicro motherboards?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:

>     That must be for their IPMI interface.
>
> Which should NEVER be on any network that can be directly hit from outside the
> secure LAN. Connecting to the IPMI interface from the system side can also
> occur but it is just a USB-nic with no access to the IPMI controls.

I would stop that sentence after the seventh word:
   Which should NEVER be on any network
Period.

IPMI is just an attack waiting to happen.

-derek

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