Re: DHCP over VSWITCH?

2006-08-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Saturday, 08/26/2006 at 07:41 EST, Harold Grovesteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gratuitous ARP's are usually used to allow the registration of a MAC address into a Layer-2 switch's forwarding data base. In essence, the gratuitous ARP lets the device tell the switch what physical port to use

Re: DHCP over VSWITCH?

2006-08-26 Thread Harold Grovesteen
Gratuitous ARP's are usually used to allow the registration of a MAC address into a Layer-2 switch's forwarding data base. In essence, the gratuitous ARP lets the device tell the switch what physical port to use to send a frame when the MAC address is encountered as the destination MAC address

Re: DHCP over VSWITCH?

2006-08-25 Thread Stricklin, Raymond J
:18 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: DHCP over VSWITCH? On Thursday, 08/24/2006 at 01:33 MST, Stricklin, Raymond J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up DHCP for linux users on our VSWITCH. Right now I have two linux users, both on VSWITCH. One is the DHCP server (SLES9

Re: DHCP over VSWITCH?

2006-08-25 Thread Rich Smrcina
You don't mention what release of VM your on (at least I don't see it). I believe there may have been some VM service at one point that dealt with Linux DHCP servers running under VM. You may want to query IBMLink (or the support center). Stricklin, Raymond J wrote: For the benefit of the

Re: DHCP over VSWITCH?

2006-08-25 Thread Clovis Pereira
Please, see the Apar VM63608 from IBM. Good luck. _ Clóvis Pereira IBM Brasil Global Technology Services/SW Services HCPSWU2833E Error 'E00A'X adding IP address 192.54.6.16 for VSWITCH SYSTEM VLINUX1. HCPSWU2833E IP address is already in use on the LAN.

Re: DHCP over VSWITCH?

2006-08-25 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 08/25/2006 at 12:48 MST, Stricklin, Raymond J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the benefit of the rest of the list; Alan's suggestion to enable faked frame headers solved the problem I was having. Unfortunately, a second problem surfaced immediately. The VSWITCH would give me an

DHCP over VSWITCH?

2006-08-24 Thread Stricklin, Raymond J
I am trying to set up DHCP for linux users on our VSWITCH. Right now I have two linux users, both on VSWITCH. One is the DHCP server (SLES9 SP2 with ISC dhcpd), and one is the DHCP client (SLES10 with dhcpcd). The client sends its VM user name as its DHCP client identifier; the server

Re: DHCP over VSWITCH?

2006-08-24 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 08/24/2006 at 01:33 MST, Stricklin, Raymond J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up DHCP for linux users on our VSWITCH. Right now I have two linux users, both on VSWITCH. One is the DHCP server (SLES9 SP2 with ISC dhcpd), and one is the DHCP client (SLES10 with