Mark, Your right. This is starting to sound like a big pain. To use a CTC connection, do I just hook an ESCON cable between 2 Escon channels? I've never done that before. We don't have VM.
One other question. We have an extra 3174 controller we could hook up to the Linux Lpar. If I can use a 3270 terminal, I can use that to install the CLAW driver. That sounds like an easier way. I have a couple parallel and a couple of Escon channels free. Eric Bielefeld Sr. MVS Systems Programmer P&H Mining Equipment Milwaukee, WI 414-671-7849 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/18/03 05:53PM >>> Eric, If you're running on an MP3K, it might be easiest to see if you can grab control of the Ethernet card for a while, until you can get the install completed. If not, then you're talking about connecting your Linux/390 system to your PROD LPAR. From the way you phrased that, I'm guessing you're running OS/390 or z/OS there. You'll need to define a CTC connection between the two systems. You'll have to have the MVS system forward the IP traffic to your Linux/390 system. This will mean TCP/IP changes on the MVS system. You'll have to let the rest of your network know how to get to the Linux/390 system. This will entail either static routes in your routers, or running a routing protocol service on MVS that will advertise the routes to the rest of the network. (Is this starting to sound like a big pain yet?) Try to make sure that your Linux/390 system is in a different subnet than your MVS system is in. Otherwise you're going to have routing problems from that. I'm don't believe the versions of Red Hat and SuSE that can be downloaded contain the CLAW driver. You'll have to get the source and compile it on your newly installed system. I don't know if SLES8 contains a CLAW driver or not. Mark Post +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This electronic mail transmission contains information from P & H Mining Equipment which is confidential, and is intended only for the use of the proper addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately at the return address on this transmission, or by telephone at (414) 671-4400, and delete this message and any attachments from your system. Unauthorized use, copying, disclosing, distributing, or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this transmission is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
