We have it installed on Linux servers that can't use vswitch (xdr hyperswap, don't ask). It's been a while, but I just followed the setup in the Networking with Linux on System z presentation.
Sles 10 sp 3 here. Sorry! No yast for me for this! Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Foster at Baldor-IS Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 2:21 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINUX-390] Defining channel bonding of OSA adapters with Yast Hello listers, We had an OSA adapter go out the other night on our z10. Our linux guests running under z/VM did not have any problems when this OSA adapter went out. The vswitches they were attached to had multiple adapters defined to them. The vswitch just moved things around and they just kept running as if nothing happened. (That is until the CE noticed that our primary and backup OSA adapters that our vswitches used were on the same physical card. But that is another story...) However, we have three Linux LPARS. They had problems. The OSA adapter that went down was their only connection to a particular network. All of a sudden it seemed to be a good idea to figure out how to do channel bonding. Spending a little time with Google, I found a SHARE presentation (Networking with Linux on System Z) that gave me a setup. The setup had you issue several commands, and then showed excerpts from some configuration files. Since I did not attend the presentation, I was not sure how much I would need to add to get it to work. Spending a little more time with Google, I found a post on the list from Pieter Harder. It had a complete set of configuration files. I should be able to get them to work... But I am a YaST kind of guy. I found an article on the Novell knowledgebase (3815448) as of SLES10 SP2 that showed how to do it on an Intel system. I start going through the procedure and see that at a certain point that I am supposed to add a device type of bond. My SLES10 SP3 system does not give me an option of bond. I get ethernet, hipersockets, iucv and several others, but no bond. Has anyone been able to set up channel bonding with YaST? Or did they use files like Pieter put in his post? Thanks, Ron ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
