Hi Gents,

One month ago I bought a Dell T410 with iDRAC6. During the installation and initial setup in my companies lab, everything was ok with the DRAC, I could reach it all the time, worked well for a whole month. During this month there were periods while I did not touch the DRAC for days, but when I wanted to reach it, it worked properly.

3 days ago I put the server to my ISP to its final place in a co-location room. I bought a dedicated network for the iDRAC as well, it got a public IP and it is connected to the same switch as the server's NICs.

When I left the server, everything was ok, but when I arrived home, I could not reach the DRAC, the host worked (and always worked) well. I asked the ISP to check, but they said thay were able to see the DRAC live, so the link was ok. 

I pinged the DRAC from the server and everything became good, I was able to reach the WEB GUI and the SSH server as well.

After few hours, it disappeared again, the ISP confirmed that thay can see the DRAC still live. As I pinged the DRAC from the server, it worked for an other few hours again.

I got the server with v1.80 firmware, yesterday I upgraded it to the latest available v1.85.3, but the problem still exists. Today we also connected the DRAC to an other switch and changed the cable as well, but we still have the same issue.

Have you guys experienced an issue like this with these new firmwares ? I saw a few pretty old posts prior to v1.50, but in those cases upgrade to v1.50 solved the issue.

What should I do now ?

Thanks,

Misi