Hi, You have two OSA cards. VSWITCH1 (with PRIROUTER enabled) is connected to one card and VSWITCH2 is connected to the second card. I assume these two OSA cards are connected to two different physical LAN segments in the real world and your router is the only network link between them.
You mentioned that you defined VSWITCH1 with the PRIROUTER option, but did you configure your Linux router to use the "primary_router" option on this interface? Check /etc/chandev.conf for the qeth0 line. In addition to portname:whatever (which is optional now) you should have "primary_router". This tells CP that your virtual interface to VSWITCH1 has enabled PRIROUTER. Otherwise we would blindly make copies for all hosts whether they want to be routers or not. In case you already configured primary_router ... maybe there is another problem... You have a local station using 172.18.1.16 connected to a physical LAN segment (probably the 172.18.1.0/24 subnet). I assume the 192.168.6.0/24 subnet is isolated from 172.18.1.0/24 so you have to go through the router to reach it. Does "netstat -nr" from 172.18.1.16 show that 172.18.1.0 uses your 172.18.1.* router as the gateway? If so, try to ping from 172.18.1.16 to the 172.18.1.* interface on your router. I'm not sure how your Linux guest (192.168.6.141) is connected. Do you dedicate three OSA devices from the second card to this guest? In that case, you should be able to ping from 192.168.6.141 to the 192.168.6.* interface on your router. Does "netstat -nr" from 192.168.6.141 show the router 192.168.6.* address as the default gateway (or at least the gateway for 172.18.1.0/24 hosts)? If so, try to ping from 192.168.6.141 to the 192.168.6.* interface on your router. If that works, try to ping to the 172.18.1.* interface on your router. If the gateways are defined properly and you can ping between these hosts and the router, I think this should work. A packet directed from the 172.18.1.0/subnet to your gateway should reach the OSA card because because ARP provided the MAC address of the OSA card to those hosts on the physical LAN segment. After the packet reaches the OSA card, the PRIROUTER support should deliver it to VSWITCH1. The eth0 interface to VSWITCH1 should get a copy (if primary_router option was set). The remainder of the path looks normal. I would not expect a problem. Regards, Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Musselwhite ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) z/VM Development -- CP Network Simulation -- IBM Endicott NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
