On Thursday, 08/21/2008 at 01:18 EDT, Fred Schmidt 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Our z/VM environment currently sits behind a firewall. We would like to 
allow 
> one Linux guest to act as an Internet server. We do not however want to 
expose 
> the other Linux guests or the z/VM environment itself to the outside 
world. We 
> are using VSWITCH. 
> 
> Is this possible? What options are there? 
> 
> Do we require a separate OSA for the Linux guest in the DMZ? 

Tell your comms guy that you don't need either a separate OSA (for a 2nd 
VSWITCH) or another VLAN on your existing VSWITCH (making it VLAN-aware on 
a trunk port).

There are other security measures you may be required to take, but they 
aren't related to comms, so make sure your network security folks agree 
with your plan to put an Internet and intranet servers in the same z/VM 
LPAR.  If they have issues then you can take security to the next level 
using mandatory access controls (RACF with SECLABELs).

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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