On Wednesday, 08/06/2008 at 04:42 EDT, Rob van der Heij 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> >> Is that stack association limit correct? If this is the case, is 
there a
> >> circumvention? Can multiple OSA adapters be associated with a single 
VLAN?
> >
> > Use a VSWITCH, since you've already decided this is going to be run on 
z/VM.
> 
> The limit is model dependent, for z9 way more than 640 IIRC.
> 
> The way to get around it (once) is to make the VM system primary
> router so it will get all packets for which the OSA has no entry in
> the OAT. I think the limit also applies to the number of stacks on the
> VSWITCH. There isn't a way for VSWITCH to set primary router, is
> there?

Yes, there is (the PRIROUTER option), but who cares?  Define the VSWITCH 
as ETHERNET (layer 2), not IP.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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