I just got my SuperMircro board to boot into XEN and now I am planning on playing with pass-through! My plan is to setup this server as a pfSense router. I already have the pfSense .img installed and ready to go. The board as a single Intel 82579LM NIC and dual Intel 82574L. I would like to leave the single NIC for unRAID and pass-through the dual NIC's for pfSense; however, whenever I plug the Ethernet into the single NIC, the IMPI login screen shows up instead of the unRAID web gui. Is there a way to disable the IMPI screen from showing up and instead have the unRAID web gui show up?

That interface is dedicated for IMPI, dont think you can turn that off at all.

Would it be possible to run both unRAID and impi on that interface by keeping unRAID on port 80 but changing impi to something else? Or is impi the only thing that port can handle?

That port is dedicated to IMPI, I don't think you can expose it to any OS.

I guess I will be needing a new PCI-e NIC card then. Thanks

you might not need to.

you have 2 ports right

instead of passing them through, just create a bridge for each of them

let say BR0 and BR1

dedicate one bridge to the WAN (use BR1 as br0 is a default in many apps and such)

and BR0 as LAN

 

add both of the bridges to the pfsense VM making sure BR1 is mapped to psSense eth0  and br0 to pfsence eth1

add second IP to the br0 interface to use for your server interface.

 

this is how I saw it suggested on one of the pfsence forums for a 2 NIC setup.

what you are doing is sharing the br0 between pfSense VM and the server since bridge acts as switch and can have multiple connections addressing it.

 

Hmm interesting. I will have to mess around with that. Thanks for the suggestion.

You configure your IPMI to use a different ip address.  For example my Supermicro MB has 2 built in nics.  The IPMI once actually has 2 ip address assigned.

 

If i recall correctly you set the IPMI interface IP address in bios.

If you go to the IP address of IPMI in a browser and logon.  Then go to system/network and set a static IP address, that address is ONLY for IPMI.

 

Next you go to your installed OS and either set a static or DHCP for the same nic and give it a different IP address from the IPMI one you just set,  that will work for network traffic. 

 

 

Have your IPMI nic as your internal nic btw in PFSense...

 

my setup when I had my Supermicro MB with PFSense was

 

IPMI on nic 1

 

Nic 1 = 192.168.1.1 as my LAN interface

Nic 1 = also as 192.168.1.55 as my IPMI interface so I could console to it and leave the system headless.

 

Nic 2 = (DHCP) Wan interface

 

 

To simplify what I am saying IPMI sets up a simple VLAN on the Nic it self

 

 

IPMI is EPIC,  once it is configured, hide you computer with just a ethernet connection and power plugged in.  if you need to reinstall an OS,  you can do it from IPMI.  Need to fix something, IPMI.  Need to plug in a cdrom, virtualize it from an iso on your desktop with IPMI.  It is a REALLY nice tool.