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> Also, you can't really 'piggyback' ethernet easily, for the same reasons; you would need TWO phy in there to decode/reencode... Pretty much every BMC in exis

> Also, you can't really 'piggyback' ethernet easily, for the same reasons; you would need TWO phy in there to decode/reencode... Pretty much every BMC in existence (well, the ones that comply with the Data Center Manageability Interface, at least) can "piggyback" on top of an onboard Ethernet interface.

jhallenworld 8y ago
This works because the main PHY chip has a side channel (i.e., extra pins) for a connection to the BMC. There are not two PHYs for a single ethernet.