It's pretty telling that 20% of the public IPMI hosts are Supermicro. I suspect that a lot of that is completely unintentional. Supermicro has a completely bra

It's pretty telling that 20% of the public IPMI hosts are Supermicro. I suspect that a lot of that is completely unintentional. Supermicro has a completely brain dead default behavior, where if you connect power to the machine and the management Ethernet port doesn't have a link, it migrates the IPMI interface to the first host Ethernet port. You can only fix this by power cycling the BMC. Since it will just ask DHCP for an IP address and might wind up on the production VLAN, bad things can happen in environments that aren't prepared for that.