Yep, and if you have two controllers for failover to two OSA's this is a problem ... am I up or am I down?
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Miguel Delapaz Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 11:33 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IFCONFIG to -REMOVE a link Shimon, Stop the interface with IFCONFIG VSECM DOWN first. It turns out that IFCONFIG doesn't use the actual device status to decide whether an interface is UP or DOWN...it considers a device UP if it has usable routes (i.e. it can actually send traffic). We should probably change that :-) Regards, Miguel Delapaz z/VM Development The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> wrote on 08/23/2009 05:01:55 AM: > Hi, > I tried to use IFCONFIG to remove a link. According to the help file > the interface must be inactive first. I assumed that an interface which is > "DOWN" can be considered "inactive", but apparently I was wrong: > > IFCONFIG VSECM > VSECM INET ADDR: 10.1.5.2 P-T-P: 10.1.6.2 MASK: 255.0.0.0 > DOWN BROADCAST MULTICAST POINTOPOINT MTU: 32760 > VDEV: 0902 TYPE: CTC PORTNUMBER: 1 > CPU: 0 FORWARDING: ENABLED > RX BYTES: 0 TX BYTES: 1524 > READY; T=0.13/0.14 14:51:26 > > IFCONFIG -SHOW VSECM -REMOVE > DTCIFC2668E -REMOVE CANNOT BE SPECIFIED FOR AN ACTIVE INTERFACE > READY(00008); T=0.11/0.12 14:51:35 > Can someone explain what else I need to do to remove this interface? > Thanks, > Shimon ----------------------------------------------------- Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
