Comment 2 for bug 1811439

Installed the latest firmware image.

root@witherspoon:~# cat /var/lib/phosphor-software-manager/pnor/ro/VERSION

IBM-witherspoon-ibm-OP9-v2.0.11-2.6-prod
 op-build-v2.0.11-4-g362008d
 buildroot-2018.05.1-9-gc99f2ee
 skiboot-00c8ab5-pdfdccea
 hostboot-3bf7fcf-pfb5d59d
 occ-3a505ff
 linux-4.17.12-openpower1-p23ee713
 petitboot-v1.7.3-pf71644b
 machine-xml-dce824c
 hostboot-binaries-hw112818a.op920
 capp-ucode-p9-dd2-v4
 sbe-7aa21f6
 hcode-hw112818a.op920

IPMI service seems to be active:

[[0;1;32m●[[0m phosphor-ipmi-host.service - Phosphor Inband IPMI
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/phosphor-ipmi-host.service; enabled; vend
or preset: enabled)
   Active: [[0;1;32mactive (running)[[0m since Mon 2019-01-28 15:49:58 UTC; 3min
 50s ago
 Main PID: 1323 (ipmid)
   CGroup: /system.slice/phosphor-ipmi-host.service
           └─1323 ipmid

Jan 28 15:50:43 witherspoon ipmid[1323]: Pushing cmd on to queue
Jan 28 15:50:43 witherspoon ipmid[1323]: Asserting SMS Attention
Jan 28 15:50:44 witherspoon ipmid[1323]: SMS Attention asserted
Jan 28 15:50:49 witherspoon ipmid[1323]: [[0;1;31mwd_reset: ERROR in mapper call
[[0m
Jan 28 15:50:49 witherspoon ipmid[1323]: ERROR:[0xFF] handling NetFn:[0x6], Cmd:
[0x22]
Jan 28 15:50:59 witherspoon ipmid[1323]: ERROR:[0x80] handling NetFn:[0x6], Cmd:
[0x22]
Jan 28 15:53:41 witherspoon ipmid[1323]: Pushing cmd on to queue
Jan 28 15:53:41 witherspoon ipmid[1323]: Pushing cmd on to queue
Jan 28 15:53:41 witherspoon ipmid[1323]: Asserting SMS Attention
Jan 28 15:53:43 witherspoon ipmid[1323]: SMS Attention asserted

But IPMI (ipmitool) command fails:
$ ipmitool -I lanplus -H 10.245.71.111 -U root -P 0penBmc mc info
Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session

I connect to the BMC using the IP address 10.245.71.111 which was assigned by DHCP. I also see another IP address that he interface eth0 is assigned: 169.254.233.244
root@witherspoon:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:94:EF:80:27:30
          inet addr:169.254.233.244 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a94:efff:fe80:2730%959/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:1212 errors:0 dropped:14 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1611 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:150981 (147.4 KiB) TX bytes:1065143 (1.0 MiB)
          Interrupt:19

is this the interface and ip address that responds to IPMI commands? If that is the case then this could be our problem why it does not respond to ipmi reqs on 10.245.71.111.