On an occasional basis, when I have to IPL a guest under 5.4, I find that the primary network connection doesn't work properly when the SLES system comes [back] up. It isn't until I ping the gateway from said guest that I'm able to access it remotely. Until that step is performed, the system is inaccessible over the network. I accomplish this either by accessing the guest from another systems over a Hipersockets connection or the TN3270 console. After this step is performed, it's again possible to access the guest remotely, via SSH, over the primary network connection.
All of the SLES guests are attached to a VLAN-aware VSWITCH, which in turn is connected to redundant OSA Express-3 cards. Has anyone else seen this behavior? Any idea why it might do this? It doesn't appear to matter whether it's a SLES 10 or SLES 11 guest, the issue is the same. It is NOT every time the guests is IPL'd, either which makes it all the more bizzare and difficult to troubleshoot. Thanks, Dave Dave Keeton ETS / Service Delivery State Data Center (503) 373-0832 Confidentiality Note: This electronic mail transmission contains information belonging to the Department of Administrative Services, Enterprise Technical Services. This information may be confidential and/or legally privileged and is intended for the use of the addressees designated above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this electronic information is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete and notify us immediately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
