On Saturday, 01/23/2016 at 01:13 GMT, "O'Brien, Dennis L" <dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.com> wrote: > Like Marcy said, I don't see anything to gain by involving the DHCP people. > Managing MACID's is no less complicated than managing IP addresses.
Managing MACIDs is actually way *less* complicated than IPs since you don't have to worry about global uniqueness or subnet boundaries. For those with a liberal attitude about DHCP, you don't have to use the MACID. You can pass the VM user ID to the DHCP server instead. And you don't have to turn over operations to The Network People if you don't want to. I was just being a troll. :-) Use a Linux guest and control IP address assignment based on DHCP config, all in a single location. That eliminates CMS from the Linux guests, avoiding any CMS/LGR "entanglements", and dead relocation is good enough for the DHCP server. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
