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Can't access IPMI across lan to Dell T620 server

Cannot connect to ipmi on a dell poweredge t620.
IPMI over LAN is enabled.
I can nmap the port and it's listening.

when I try to run a command against it I get the following:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\SysMgt\bmc>ipmitool.exe -I lanplus -H 192.168.101.4 -U root -P password sdr elist all
Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session
Get Device ID command failed
Unable to open SDR for reading

Funny thing is, I can get this to work:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\SysMgt\bmc>ipmish -ip 192.168.101.5 -u root -p password -k 1234512345 sysinfo
DeviceID        : 32
DeviceRevision  : 1
FirmwareVersion : 2.61
IpmiVersion     : 2.0
ManufacturerID  : 674
ProductID       : 256
Status          : No error
SDRVersion      : 1.5
Guid            : 315xxxx-C0C4-xxx-4C10-00544C4C45xx
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is the iDRAC licensed ?
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Does ipmitool work if you use lan rather than lanplus interface? Dell don't have much info on specifying the ciphersuite for lanplus and I see you are just using the default.
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iDRAC has enterprise license.
I've tried "lan" rather than "lanplus"


It feels like I need to somehow pass the encryption key (1234512345) to ipmitool, but can't see an argument to do so.
(it's the -k 1234512345 for the ipmish command)
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