Tore, Takk! You have only to enable the layer 2 support and leave the MAC field empty in YAST. After a restart it is still working! I have checked, the fiel LLADDR in ifcfg-qeth-bus-ccw-0.0.xxxx is empty. Thank you for that info.
Kind regards, Florian On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Agblad Tore <tore.agb...@volvo.com> wrote: > We have tested layer2 and we had to 'set a bit on somewhere' to be able > to not define mac, that is possibly > in the yast panels as well, but we didn't do it that way. > As we can recall, the default for layer2 was that you need to give MAC > but changing that bit, made z/VM to generate one unique. > > So No, you don't have to fill in MAC, but in that case you have to > 'set a bit on'. > > Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga Hälsningar > Tore Agblad > > Volvo Information Technology > Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development > SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden > E-mail: tore.agb...@volvo.com > > http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ > ________________________________________ > From: Linux on 390 Port [linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Florian > Bilek [florian.bi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 19:52 > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: SLES 10 SP2 and Layer 2 support on VMSWITCH > > Dear all, > > I would like to know if I have to fill in the mac address when defining a > layer 2 interface in YAST. Because when I do this, it is not possible to > start that VM on another z/VM image as the MAC Prefix of that image is > different. So is there a way to avoid the coding of the MAC Address and use > the value comming from the NIC? Could not really find more information to > this issue. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > Best regards, > Florian > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
