On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:17 -0500, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 04:19 EST, Brad Hinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I assume the routing options don't take effect unless there's an > > external OSA interface defined. Is this true? > > Yes. > > > If so, does the VSWITCH > > act in NONROUTER or PRIROUTER mode before the OSA is defined? > > Not applicable since there are no inbound packets from an OSA. > > > The goal is to send packets to another network through the Linux router > > attached to this VSWITCH, but the VSWITCH seems to discard these packets > > as if NONROUTER were set. Is this a case where a GuestLAN is a better > > fit than a VSWITCH with no external interface? > > Make sure the Linux guest has configured PRIROUTER in it's network config. > The other guests are delivering packets to the Linux guest's virtual NIC > that do not have Linux's own IP address in them. As with a real OSA, > PRIROUTER is required to get the NIC to accept all IP addresses. >
Is there a command to do this? I don't see any reference to PRIrouter in the 'set nic' or 'couple' help pages. > Alternatively, change to a layer 2 VSWITCH. Then all the PRIROUTER stuff > goes away. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Brad Hinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. Support Engineer Lead, System z Red Hat, Inc. (919) 754-4198 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
