You are confusing IPMI 1.0 with IPMI 2.0. > Systems compliant with IPMI version 2.0 can also communicate via serial over LAN, whereby serial console output can

You are confusing IPMI 1.0 with IPMI 2.0. > Systems compliant with IPMI version 2.0 can also communicate via serial over LAN, whereby serial console output can be remotely viewed over the LAN. Systems implementing IPMI 2.0 typically also include KVM over IP, remote virtual media and out-of-band embedded web-server interface functionality, although strictly speaking, these lie outside of the scope of the IPMI interface standard. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Managemen...