> I am installing Marist/LINUX on an IBM Z800 in a Z/VM guest. Bluntly, give up on the Marist distribution and start with something more modern that supports guest LANs. The Marist code is *ancient* and lacks a number of important things to make it usable for anything. You'll spend more time chasing those problems than learning anything about Linux.
If you need a totally free distribution to play with, check into CentOS or Debian. Both are considerably more up to date, and much more representative of the current state of the art. Returning to your question: > I am able to ping from the tcpmaint ID to the LINUX but it seems I can not > do this from outside of the mainframe. The problem is not in your setup, but in the network outside your setup. You need to have your networking people insert a static route into the network infrastructure that tells the rest of the world that your Linux guest is reachable via the VM TCPIP stack, or configure MPROUTE on VM and have the networking guys accept routing updates from it. They're more likely to do the static route approach. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
