On 5 January 2011 18:25, Marcy Cortes <marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com> wrote: > It appears that every server with a WAS ND node agent running on it uses >a multicast address of 232.133.104.73. Apparently that is IBM's default. > > Is that required or something that can be turned off? I kind of suspect maybe > it can be turned off. See: > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21237705 > , but I'm not sure. I think we tell them where each other live and a > discovery isn't > needed... but maybe not?
For all it's worth; we have a couple of test environments in which that traffic gets dropped by iptables (and reported on, which is how we noticed it in the first place) w/o ill effects. In others whoever stood WAS up disabled it (which means the logs don't fill up w/ drop messages). Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
