Hi Malcolm, APAR VM63172 applied to CP will add support for the function by which the device driver obtains the MAC address of the adapter. It should return the same MAC address that you see when you QUERY NIC from the guest. I have seen the results displayed from ifconfig, but this was with a very recent driver. The earlier driver was sending the request in IPv6 mode... which gets us to your real question.
VM Guest LAN support in z/VM 4.3.0 does not include IPv6 capability. Is there enough interest in using IPv6 that we should consider enhancing Guest LAN simulation to include IPv6 ? The message "qeth: IPv6 not supported on eth0" indicates that the driver checked the adapter capabilities and found IPv6 was not present. You would probably see the same message if you had an older OSA card (or an older microcode version). To get back to the MAC address visibility... Issue "CP QUERY VMLAN" and see if VM63172 is stated as the latest VMLAN service. If that's not the problem, you may need the latest qeth driver. Regards, Dennis Musselwhite ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM z/VM Development -- CP Network Simulation
