On Wednesday, 01/15/2003 at 07:57 MST, Dave Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 1.  Sanity check.....if I setup a guestlan and use MPROUTE on zVM as my
> router,
>      AND the rest of my network does not use  OSPF or RIP routers (i.e.
> cisco)....
>      how do the 'other-protocol' routers "learn" about my guestlan
private
> subnet??
>      IS A STATIC ENTRY REQUIRED IN ALL OTHER ROUTERS?

Yes.  A single router running a routing protocol is lonely indeed.
Sometimes you can enable OSPF or RIP on one of your [Cisco] routers so
that it can learn from VM and then send that to the other routers via the
'other protocol'.

> 2.  Is the Next_Hop on the Default_Route statement supposed to point to
the
>      same IP addr that was coded in my GATEWAY DEFAULTNET statement?

Yes.

> 3.  How do I ensure that I'm not flooding the rest of my network with
> traffic generated by MPROUTE?

I wouldn't use the word "flooding".  MPROUTE will multicast OSPF and RIPV2
data.  If your RIP/OSPF network is small, so will be the amount of data
flowed.

> 4.  Any reason to keep my GATEWAY statements while running MPROUTE?

GATEWAY is a way to do static routes.  It is useful if MPROUTE doesn't
come up, but it then creates a hazard where you need to keep MPROUTE
CONFIG and GATEWAY in sync.

Alan Altmark
Sr. Software Engineer
IBM z/VM Development

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