On Wednesday, 05/23/2007 at 08:37 EST, RPN01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The best advice is to draw a picture (or convert the one Kris is sending you > to your configuration). Label each connection as physical or virtual, and > with the commands needed to utilize it (ATTACH and DETACH for real CTCAs, > DEFINE, COUPLE and DETACH for virtual CTCAs, giving the destination for > each). Each line should have text at both ends, because the commands are > possibly different at each end; virtual addresses may be different (but not > necessarily so), and the name of the userid(s) involved will be different. > > Also add to this diagram the TCP/IP addresses you expect each interface to > be seen as, and the mask to be used. > > Having a good picture, both in your mind and on paper, of what you're doing > will go a long way to understanding how to plumb it all up.
A PICTURE! A PICTURE! This brings joy to my heart and tears to my eyes. And ... a ... (sob) .. picture with ..(sob).. LABELS! Add the subnet mask and MTU size and I could die today (the 1812 Overture finale builds) knowing that Truth, Justice, and Network Diagrams, even for virtual networks (begin canonnade), will live on; that future generations will benefit from the hard lessons learned by those who don't draw pictures. (Crecendo and fade....) Amen. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
