On Friday, 02/01/2008 at 09:29 EST, Mark Pace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 1, 2008 9:15 AM, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Virtual network: No physical wires, switches; no (or reduced) need to > > encrypt/decrypt data "in transit" within the box (CPU savings). > > Good point, but the reason I left that off my list is because you can do, > mostly, the same thing with Hipersockets between LPARS.
z/VM Guest LANs and HiperSockets are a good analogy. The z/VM Virtual Switch, however, has no LPAR equivalent. Guest LANs and VSWITCHes also provide an (authorized) LAN sniffing capability, not available in HiperSockets. 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
