In increasing order of moron, here are a few ways that this can happen:

1) The IPMI may share the same port as the primary network interface.

2) You may have requested an expensive switching architecture with proper VLAN segregation, but your manager only approved you to take the old D-Link box from under his desk, forcing everything to be on the same segment.

3) The people who run the datacentre may have thoughtfully connected every Ethernet port they could find to your switch, even the one with that funny wrench symbol on it, without telling you. In many cases it's possible for a server to be purchased, received, installed, configured and put into production without any of its owners ever seeing it in person. Throw in a heavy dose of "It's somebody else's problem" all around and anything can happen.

4) In some organizations (and I'm not going to name any), IT policy like "All management ports must be reachable from our head office and the IT support desk in Hyderabad" is set by people who think that "security" means remembering to lock their Lexus.

And with SuperMicro BMCs, it's even more handy when you don't own any of them.

What's even more frightening is what some of those codes were set to by the security conscious (or is that unconscious) people in charge of them:

President Skroob's luggage looks like Fort Knox compared to these things.

...and fired them for daring to show historic computers to visitors. And then kicking out the amateur radio society to replace them with a gift shop, and finally putting up a chain link fence to make sure nobody accidentally visits the real museum in building H.

The only reason the current Bletchley park management haven't levelled the place to put up a Starbucks is that the donors might notice and cut off their multi-million pound gravy train.

Google "Prove it".

Whatever you do, don't settle for IPVista.

Why should it have? There are hundreds of BMO branches in the USA.

Not just in French, but with the French on top and in a larger typeface so that it is markedly predominant.

It's the law.

There's no need to keep bashing on Computer Science here.

What, and give up three or more years worth of tuition, fees, and cheap labour? You're talking as if the goal of a University is somehow academic in nature, rather than to make as much money as possible.

If only there was some sort of parallel with the study of things like history, art and literature here.