Gee, I sure am glad no one told us it could not be done. I have two OSA's servicing five LPARs with 15 'static' IP addresses each and another dozen VIPA's that wander around.
I want very much to use the third OSA and dynamic routing to eliminate a single point of failure, but the network folks aren't on board yet. Is Cisco the root source of this misinformation? There seems to be a number of very curious misperceptions that seem to be common to Cisco trained folks. OBTW: one reason for lots of VIPA's is where you have lots of IP applications and you want to be able to move them around to different LPARs. So, you assign as many VIPA addresses as you need to each application. You then include the VIPA adds to the application startup process and VIPA deletes to the shutdown process. Works well for us. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kittendorf, Craig Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: TCP/IP over Cisco router CIP Our network people and their hired consultant insist that we can not have multiple IP address on one OSA. The also refer to VIPA as "viper", maybe because the consultant claimed we were creating "poisoned" routes. Anyway we do have a VIPA and three OSA-E cards working perfectly. I don't understand why 'you "should" be using lots of VIPA' with our one stack? Thanks, Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
