Pasting large strings into an IPMI Serial-Over-Lan session results in an illegible response.
Issue
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Connecting via a Serial-Over-Lan (SOL) session to a system's Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
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Pasting a clipboard containing more than 256 characters
- Session becomes illegible due to multiple echoes back of original clipboard
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 (or earlier)
- OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2 (or earlier)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (or earlier)
- ipmitool-1.8.11-7.el6 (or earlier)
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