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

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