Anybody know if VSWITCHes support 'spanning tree' , or need to do it ?

2012-05-15 Thread Agblad Tore
We have that question from our network people, because we will need to connect to a separate physical LAN for one customer, and we want the migration as seamless as possible. So we will have duplicates of connections, of which both are redundant as well. This will obviously expose us for the risk

LXFMT bug fix

2012-05-15 Thread Neale Ferguson
http://download.sinenomine.net/lxfmt contains an updated LXFMT VMARC. A bug has been fixed that incorrectly decoded device addresses containing hex digits. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send e

Re: Anybody know if VSWITCHes support 'spanning tree' , or need to do it ?

2012-05-15 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 05/15/2012 at 05:36 EDT, Agblad Tore wrote: > We have that question from our network people, because we will need > to connect to a separate physical LAN for one customer, and we want the > migration > as seamless as possible. > So we will have duplicates of connections, of which both

Re: Anybody know if VSWITCHes support 'spanning tree' , or need to do it ?

2012-05-15 Thread David Boyes
> > Any know if a z/VM vswitch support this or if it is perhaps not needed ? It does not (it'd be nice, but it doesn't). It's probably not necessary, but you can (at least with the Cisco hardware) configure the spanning tree parameters so that the real network hardware always has the lowest co

Re: LXFMT bug fix

2012-05-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
>http://download.sinenomine.net/lxfmt contains an updated LXFMT VMARC. A bug >has been fixed that incorrectly decoded device addresses containing hex >digits. The files in the new LXFMT22 VMARC have dates in 1907, 1908, and 1912. Either we had some very forward-thinking programmers a hundred yea

SLES11 - zfcp_disk_configure bug? (Could not deactivate SCSI disk)

2012-05-15 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Hi, I have small problem and tiny workaround for it. I am wondering if anyone else had issues like this. Sometimes (actually quite often), Yast complains when I try to deactivate a scsi disk. (yast->hardware->zfcp>delete) with message "Could not deactivate SCSI disk"). Unfortunately it is being re

Re: LXFMT bug fix

2012-05-15 Thread Neale Ferguson
Not using the VMARC MODULE I am: LXFMTVMARCX1 F 80 111622 2012-05-15 09:45:58 LXFMTLOADMAP X5 V100 89 3 2012-05-15 09:44:25 LXFMTMODULE X1 V 18712 4 5 2012-05-15 09:44:25 LXFSETEXT X1 F 80

Re: SLES11 - zfcp_disk_configure bug? (Could not deactivate SCSI disk)

2012-05-15 Thread Michael O'Reilly
Grzegorz, I have been working with Novell to fix these problems. Novell has resolved the problems and is putting the final touches on a PTF s390-tools package that contains a /sbin/zfcp_disk_configure script without these problems. You can probably get an advance copy, before the maintenance rel

Re: LXFMT bug fix

2012-05-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
Interesting. I downloaded the latest VMARC MODULE from IBM, which is a slightly different size than my previous version from 2001, and also tried setting my date format to FULL and ISO. I tried this on both z/VM 5.4 and 6.2, and I still get dates in the 1900's. Time for a PMR, I suppose. Is

Re: LXFMT bug fix

2012-05-15 Thread Scott Rohling
If you execute VMARC with no args or ? it should tell you the version number ... Mine is 1.2.29 -- and what I see is things are a century off: LISTFILE LXFMT* * (ISODATE FILENAME FILETYPE FM FORMAT LRECL RECS BLOCKS DATE TIME LXFMTASSEMBLE A1 F 80 3456

Re: LXFMT bug fix

2012-05-15 Thread O'Brien, Dennis L
I'm glad to know it's not just me. I see the problem on both 1.2.27 and 1.2.29.    Dennis O'Brien "No man`s life, liberty, or property are safe while the leg