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Bug 831142 - incomplete documentation of retransmits
Summary: incomplete documentation of retransmits
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ipmitool
Version: 6.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Josef Ridky
QA Contact: Rachel Sibley
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-12 09:51 UTC by Karel Volný
Modified: 2017-09-25 08:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-09-25 08:29:50 UTC
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Description Karel Volný 2012-06-12 09:51:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
There are two new options in ipmitool: -R and -N.
The manpage does not describe the behaviour sufficiently.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipmitool-1.8.11-13.el6.1.x86_64

1. There is a typo in "-N" description - the default delay for lanplus is 1 second, not "4 seconds" (note that the commandline help lists correct value).

2. For lanplus interface, the delay is increased between tries. I'd suggest to add a sentence like:

"For the lanplus interface, the delay grows by 1 second after each retransmission in a series."

- also, it may be noted explicitly that the delay is constant for lan interface.

3. The number of retransmissions is a bit more difficult, see bug 828678#c9
I wouldn't go into such detail, however, it may be noted that on lanplus, IPMI 2.0 is tried at first, then it is retried with 1.5

As for sending the initial request twice, I'd rather see this as a bug/something to be documented within release notes.
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2012-09-07 05:19:55 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2013-10-14 00:36:38 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 3 Josef Ridky 2017-09-25 08:29:50 UTC 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is in the Production 3 Phase. During the
Production 3 Phase, Critical impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and
selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as
they become available.

The official life cycle policy can be reviewed here:

http://redhat.com/rhel/lifecycle

This issue does not meet the inclusion criteria for the Production 3 Phase
and will be marked as CLOSED/WONTFIX. If this remains a critical
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