If you use your BMC's "pass-through" capability to push its traffic through your regular NICs, you're Doing It Wrong. In fact, if you're not running a separate

If you use your BMC's "pass-through" capability to push its traffic through your regular NICs, you're Doing It Wrong. In fact, if you're not running a separate physical network (not merely separate VLANs) that is, to the extent possible, air-gapped from the rest of the world for your IPMI traffic, you're probably still Doing It Wrong.