Re: TCPIP couple with vswitch

2009-04-14 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:51:22 -0500, Rich Smrcina rsmrc...@wi.rr.com wrote: Does it work to couple the TCPIP, zVM tcpip userid, with a VSWITCH NIC and share the same segment of the rest of the zLinux guests? Absolutely. It can be a way to provide redundancy for the TCP/IP stack using multiple

Re: TCPIP couple with vswitch

2009-04-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 04/13/2009 at 07:51 EDT, Rich Smrcina rsmrc...@wi.rr.com wrote: Absolutely. It can be a way to provide redundancy for the TCP/IP stack using multiple OSA ports. You need z/VM V5.4 if you want to use layer 2 VSWITCH. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott

Re: TCPIP couple with vswitch

2009-04-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 04/14/2009 at 12:41 EDT, Hans Rempel h...@hmrconsultants.com wrote: As Dave mentioned it's always good to have a second TCPIP stack for testing and emergency access. The only thing I wanted to add was that all ports can have multiple devices defined - up to 256 I think. For

Re: TCPIP couple with vswitch

2009-04-14 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:21:55 -0400, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Tuesday, 04/14/2009 at 12:41 EDT, Hans Rempel h...@hmrconsultants.co m wrote: As Dave mentioned it's always good to have a second TCPIP stack for testing and emergency access. The only thing I wanted to add was

Re: TCPIP couple with vswitch

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Since I'm working remotely now (Cornell is in the frozen north and I'm working from balmy Plano, TX), I put a 2nd stack on both of our systems so that I could bounce the primary stack and still have connectivity thru the other one. Jim Alan Altmark wrote: On Tuesday, 04/14/2009 at 12:41

TCPIP couple with vswitch

2009-04-13 Thread Lim Ming Liang
Does it work to couple the TCPIP, zVM tcpip userid, with a VSWITCH NIC and share the same segment of the rest of the zLinux guests?

Re: TCPIP couple with vswitch

2009-04-13 Thread Rich Smrcina
Lim Ming Liang wrote: Does it work to couple the TCPIP, zVM tcpip userid, with a VSWITCH NIC and share the same segment of the rest of the zLinux guests? Absolutely. It can be a way to provide redundancy for the TCP/IP stack using multiple OSA ports. -- Rich Smrcina