On Tuesday, 12/16/2008 at 10:02 EST, Mark Pace <mpac...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I update one VM to 5.4 before another running 5.2, can one be layer 2 while > the other is layer 3? Each is sharing the same physical OSA, but different > addresses.
I don't recall the machine on which it first occurred (z9?), but you can talk between L2 and L3 on the same OSA. > While I am installing the new VM 2nd level I have it connected to my 1st level > vswitch. Can the 2nd level vswitch be layer 2 while the 1st level switch it is > connected to is layer 3? No. z/VM does not virtualize the mixed L2/L3 nature of OSA. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
