<div dir="auto">I respectfully disagree. The BMCs in modern server designs are plumbed to every onboard network interface on the motherboard. So it’s not just a matter of the “dedicated management port”. The chip would have access to every onboard LAN. If any network was routable to the outside it would be potentially be able to engage in its designed activities. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While many HPC environments are walled gardens this chip scandal would impact “HPC in the cloud” activities.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just my $.02 worth</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 07:44 Ellis H. Wilson III <<a href="mailto:ellis@ellisv3.com">ellis@ellisv3.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 10/04/2018 09:47 AM, Douglas Eadline wrote:<br>
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My take-away:<br>
This will only impact systems where there is a route between the wider <br>
world and the IPMI ports on your servers. </blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">------------------------------<br>Jeff Johnson<br>Co-Founder<br>Aeon Computing<br><br><a href="mailto:jeff.johnson@aeoncomputing.com" target="_blank">jeff.johnson@aeoncomputing.com</a><br><a href="http://www.aeoncomputing.com" target="_blank">www.aeoncomputing.com</a><br>t: 858-412-3810 x1001 f: 858-412-3845<br>m: 619-204-9061<br><br>4170 Morena Boulevard, Suite C - San Diego, CA 92117<div><br></div><div>High-Performance Computing / Lustre Filesystems / Scale-out Storage</div></div></div></div></div>