ipmi access

Mon Jun 2 23:42:36 UTC 2014

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:21 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us at gmail.com> wrote:  [snip]
> So, kinda the same idea - just put IPMI on another network and use ssh
> forwards to it. You can have multiple boxes connected in this fashion
> but the point is to keep it simple and as secure as possible (and IPMI
> security doesn't really count here :) ).

About that "as secure as possible" bit.    If just one server gets
compromised that happens to have its IPMI port plugged into this
private network;  the attacker may  be able to pivot  into the IPMI
network  and start unloading IPMI exploits.

So caution is definitely advised,  about security boundaries: in case
a shared IPMI network is used,  and this  is a case where a Private
VLAN   (PVLAN-Isolated)   could be considered,   to ensure devices on
the IPMI  LAN cannot communicate with one another ---  and only
devices on a separate dedicated IPMI Management station subnet  can
interact with the IPMI LAN.

-- 
-JH