Accessing the IMM2 - Lenovo Flex System x280 X6, x480 X6, and x880 X6 Compute Node Types 7196 and 4258

Accessing the IMM2 using the LAN over USB interface

Unlike a baseboard management controller, the IMM2 does not require IPMI device drivers or USB daemons for in-band IMM2 communication. Instead, a LAN over USB interface enables in-band communication to the IMM2; the IMM2 hardware on the system board presents an internal Ethernet interface from the IMM2 to the operating system. LAN over USB is also called the USB in-band interface in the IMM2 web interface.

The following table shows the IP addresses for the IMM2 and the host.

Table 1. LAN over USB addresses.
Five column table.
IMM2 IP address	IMM2 IP subnet mask	Host address	Host subnet	Host subnet mask	Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) address
169.254.95.118	255.255.255.0	169.254.95.120	169.254.95.0/24	255.255.255.0	0x8C80