The earlier OSAs had special code to enable IPv6. I (and many others, I’m sure)
screamed at IBM that having them in the loop of OSA firmware protocol support
for every possible protocol that someone was going to need was unsustainable,
which resulted in the layer 2 support.
If you’re doing
On Tuesday, 09/22/2009 at 11:34 EDT, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net
wrote:
Wrt to dedicated vs VSWITCH, use VSWITCH if you possibly can. Isolates
you from
the weirdnesses of the various OSAs, and the impact of the extra code is
minimal.
I don't know about weirdness, but in practical
