Hi, I have a poweredge 2850 with a DRAC 4 card.  It has the latest firmware 1.41 (Build 09.18).

 

Everytime I try to connect to the console over an encrypted tunnel it simple doesn't work.  the screen is black and it says "Connecting to 127.0.0.101:5,900" and just sits there.  127.0.0.101 is the address that forwards to another NAT server with the DRAC behind it (which is 192.168.2.101).

 

I forward all required ports liked 443, 5900, 5901, etc.  The web part works fine ( https://127.0.0.101).

 

A Poweredge 2950 (127.0.0.201) with a DRAC 5 card in the exact same configuration works perfectly fine.

 

Does the DRAC 4/I require UDP at all or is all TCP?

 

A netstat for the 2850 gives:

 TCP    127.0.0.101:3016       127.0.0.101:5900       CLOSE_WAIT
 TCP    127.0.0.101:5900       127.0.0.101:3016       FIN_WAIT_2

A netstat for the 2950 gives:

 TCP    127.0.0.201:2936       127.0.0.201:5900       ESTABLISHED
 TCP    127.0.0.201:5900       127.0.0.201:2936       ESTABLISHED

Why doesn't the 2850/DRAC4 want to establish the connection?  I can easily "telnet 127.0.0.101 5900" and it connects just fine.