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From what I've seen, most of the newer ipmi gear including the dedicated port ones include a standardized i2c interface between the platform controller/ec side (the main server) and the BMC - while it has in most cases similar authentication requirements as the typical ipmi over lan, once you've gotten past that you pretty much can run any ipmi commands, including getting raw access to its private i2c bus which I would assume attaches to its bootstrap flash. Once you're that far in bridging between the two nets would just entail writing some (non trivial) software.


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