I am going to guess you have an Express. In the iDRAC BIOS that you get into during POST via Ctrl+E, I think there are some options for shared or failover modes. I don't think you can make the iDRAC in either case use a NIC on an expansion card, just NIC 1 or NIC 2 on the system board.
The iDRAC 6 Enterprise has its own NIC, so I suggest using that one. The Enterprise includes such useful features as Console Redirection and Virtual Media, so I recommend thinking about what you need the iDRAC for before you expend too much effort making it use a different NIC.
I would want to add an IP adress to IDRAC to the second card.....
If with the second card you mean the added dual port NIC; you cannot put the DRAC on that. The DRAC either uses it's own dedicated port (only on the DRAC Enterprise) or shares one of the LOM (LAN on Motherboard) ports (not sure if you can pick which LOM port though).
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January 14th, 2011 16:00
Is this an Express iDRAC 6 or an Enterprise?
I am going to guess you have an Express. In the iDRAC BIOS that you get into during POST via Ctrl+E, I think there are some options for shared or failover modes. I don't think you can make the iDRAC in either case use a NIC on an expansion card, just NIC 1 or NIC 2 on the system board.
The iDRAC 6 Enterprise has its own NIC, so I suggest using that one. The Enterprise includes such useful features as Console Redirection and Virtual Media, so I recommend thinking about what you need the iDRAC for before you expend too much effort making it use a different NIC.
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January 14th, 2011 22:00
If with the second card you mean the added dual port NIC; you cannot put the DRAC on that. The DRAC either uses it's own dedicated port (only on the DRAC Enterprise) or shares one of the LOM (LAN on Motherboard) ports (not sure if you can pick which LOM port though).
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January 17th, 2011 01:00
Yes, I wanted to use added dual port NIC
Thanks for your replies