I've been beating my head against the wall for a week now trying to
figure out what I'm doing wrong, but I can't get it figured out, so I'm
appealing to the fine folks on this list for help.

I have a new OSA port all to myself and it's connected to a trunk port
on the network switch. I've talked to the network guys and they know
what it is that I want, so I'm pretty sure that part is set up
correctly.

I've configured TCPIP and the stack is up. From TCPMAINT, I can ping the
gateway. I have a connection to the network. I built the VSWITCH with
the following command and added it to SYSTEM CONFIG. Addresses have been
changed for security:

DEF VSWITCH VSS3000 RDEV 1234 2234 PORTT TRUNK VLAN 1234

(For RDEV, there are two links for fail-over)

Next, I coupled the guest to the vswitch:

SET VSWITCH VSS3000 GRANT SLES10 VLAN 1234

Then, I built a SLES10-SP2 guest and configured the network with YaST. I
cannot ping outside the guest. Here are the steps I've taken and info
I've verified in an effort to troubleshoot:

1. Log on to the guest VM and from CMS, ping the gateway. This works. I
can ping devices outside the z10.
2. Tried configuring SLES10 using either VLAN-aware method (Novell doc
indicates manual reconfiguration of adapter & create ifcfg-vlanxxxx
file). This doesn't work. I can't ping outside the VM.
3. Tried making the guest VLAN-unaware (ACCESS 1234 option for SET
VSWITCH) and configure SLES interface as normal (eth0). Doesn't work
either. Cannot ping outside the VM.

I am no expert on VLANs and I appear to be stuck. I would appreciate
anyone's input on this one.

Thanks in advance,
Dave

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