Mark, Just to let you know, I now have my SuSE SLES 10 SP2 system installed and up and (sorta) running.
My previous problem was due to a 'senior moment' in specifying the gateway IP address. I spent most of last week installing my FTP server on a Windows platform and I must of had the gateway IP address for the FTP server stuck in my head. This morning I realized that the gateway address I was using for the Linux install was the wrong one. Boy, is my face red. Thanks for your time and assistance. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A question on multiple nicdefs >>> On 11/25/2008 at 2:52 PM, "Macioce, Larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > So my question is can I assign multiple nicdefs to a single Linux > server? Is there something else I can do to get to my end ?? You can have as many NICs defined to your Linux guest as you have real storage to support. Assuming the NICs are connected to different network segments (as in your case) it's called "multi-homing." You don't have to put those definitions in the CP directory,however. You can dynamically define them either using the "vmcp" command from Linux or from the guest's VM console via #CP commands. I've done that many times over the last few years: #cp define nic XXXX #cp couple XXXX to system VSWITCHNAME And then from the Linux side, use YaST to configure it. It's entirely possible to do it manually, but tedious, and not permanent unless you create the appropriate /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-?? and /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-qeth-??? files, which YaST does quite nicely. Mark Post
