Kick things off with a little bit of header data

ipmibase.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# This represents the low layer message framing portion of IPMI
+import select
+import Crypto
+
+payload_types = {
+    'ipmi': 0x0,
+    'sol' : 0x1,
+    'rmcpplusopenreq': 0x10,
+    'rmcpplusopenresponse': 0x11,
+    'rakp1': 0x12,
+    'rakp2': 0x13,
+    'rakp3': 0x14,
+    'rakp4': 0x15,
+}
+
+rmcp_codes = {
+    1: 'Insufficient resources to create new session (wait for existing sessions to timeout)',
+    2: 'Invalid Session ID',
+    3: 'Invalid payload type',
+    4: 'Invalid authentication algorithm',
+    5: 'Invalid integrity algorithm',
+    6: 'No matching integrity payload',
+    7: 'No matching integrity payload',
+    8: 'Inactive Session ID',
+    9: 'Invalid role',
+    0xa: 'Unauthorized role or privilege level requested',
+    0xb: 'Insufficient resources tocreate a session at the requested role',
+    0xc: 'Invalid username length',
+    0xd: 'Unauthorized name',
+    0xe: 'Unauthorized GUID',
+    0xf: 'Invalid integrity check value',
+    0x10: 'Invalid confidentiality algorithm',
+    0x11: 'No Cipher suite match with proposed security algorithms',
+    0x12: 'Illegal or unrecognized parameter',
+}
+
+poller = select.poll()
+bmc_handlers = {}
+sessions_waiting = {}
+
+
+