Always glad to have someone looking over my shoulder. We do have requirements for access to various VLANs.
Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ethernet vswitch definition On Thursday, 01/08/2009 at 02:30 EST, "Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Your explanation is how I understood it. Good. > VLAN defvid makes the switch capable of supporting VLAN ...and it sets the default VLAN authorization for the GRANT. > PORTT determines if the guest is or is not VLAN aware. Some people have been creating VLAN-aware guests that only access a single VLAN (on a particular VSWITCH), wasting cycles. I just want to be sure you aren't falling into that trap. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
