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August 5th, 2025 16:48

iDRAC Direct setting wrong IP on Mac

I am attempting to connect to one of our R740xd PowerEdge Servers using iDRAC Direct and a MacBook Pro 15 2019.  When I connect to the server using the USB-C to Micro-USB cable and turn off WIFI the network interface gets assigned a 169.254.x.x address but it is never 169.254.0.4 as it should be according to the documentation.

Things we have tried so far:
Different Cable

Different Server

Setting a Static IP (169.254.0.4)

Deleting the Interface & Re-adding it

Resetting Mac NVRAM

None of these things have resolved the issue and the iDRAC Direct works with newer Macs.  Does anyone have any ideas what the issue could be?

Thanks!