I found it. I was bit by this once before, you think I'd have learned! The letters have to be in lower case in the ifcfg file. 80a, not 80A
Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -----Original Message----- From: Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:04 PM To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: Creatying a new interface I'm trying to setup a new virtual interface on a running server. I did: vmcp def nic 808 qdio devices 3 vmcp couple 808 to system vsw2 and it seems to have worked: vmcp q nic Adapter 0800.P00 Type: QDIO Name: UNASSIGNED Devices: 3 MAC: 02-00-00-00-00-07 VSWITCH: SYSTEM VSW2 Adapter 0804.P00 Type: QDIO Name: UNASSIGNED Devices: 3 MAC: 02-00-00-00-00-06 VSWITCH: SYSTEM VSW2 Adapter 0808.P00 Type: QDIO Name: UNASSIGNED Devices: 3 MAC: 02-00-00-00-00-02 VSWITCH: SYSTEM VSW2 built an ifcfg-eth2 DEVICE=eth2 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx NETMASK=255.255.254.0 NETTYPE=qeth ONBOOT=yes VSWITCH=1 OPTIONS='layer2=1' PORTNAME=UNASSIGNED SUBCHANNELS=0.0.0808,0.0.0809,0.0.080A But when I try to bring it up it fails: ifup eth2 Device eth2 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. Anybody suggest what I've missed? Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
