On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:00:42 -0500, Derric Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone here have any problems with the fact that multiple guests sitting > on the same LPAR running through VM and using the same adapter all share > (to the outside world) the same MAC address? > > Seems like this potentially can cause a lot of problems. In practice the OSA does a nice job in offloading that work from the guests. > Certainly for things like reverse look up etc... What applications would be doing reverse lookup of MAC address? One thing I can imagine is when you run the DHCP server on the LAN and want the guests to use that. This will not work with z/VM 4.4 and you need to run the DHCP server in the box on the Guest LAN or VSWITCH to serve the Linux guests. But that's not really a problem because running DHCP on behalf of servers is a bit different than running it on the LAN for your workstations. But things are changing in this area. -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
