NAME

       ipmi_port - a daemon to bind RMCP port 623 to prevent portmap from using it

SYNOPSIS

       ipmi_port [-bx]

DESCRIPTION

       This  ipmi_port  service starts and binds port 623, then sleeps forever, so that the portmap service will
       not try to reuse port 623, which it otherwise might try to do.  Since the IPMI firmware  snoops  the  NIC
       channel  and  grabs  any traffic destined for RMCP port 623, any application in the OS which tried to use
       port 623 would fail.

OPTIONS

       Command line options are described below.

       -b     Background mode.  Convert to a daemon and run in  background.   Without  specifying  this  option,
              ipmi_port will run in foreground.

       -x     Causes eXtra debug messages to be displayed.

SEE ALSO

       ipmiutil(8)  ialarms(8)  iconfig(8)  idiscover(8)  ievents(8)  ifru(8)  igetevent(8)  ihealth(8)  ilan(8)
       ireset(8) isel(8) isensor(8) iserial(8) isol(8) iwdt(8)

WARNINGS

       See http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/ for the latest version of ipmiutil and any bug fix list.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009  Kontron America, Inc.

       See the file COPYING in the distribution for more details regarding redistribution.

       This utility is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.

AUTHOR

       Andy Cress <arcress at users.sourceforge.net>

                                            Version 1.0: 14 Apr 2010                                IPMI_PORT(8)