this is EXACTLY what we do and why we do it. works absolutely wonderfully (still looking forward to hipersockets by the end of the year, though).
> -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 6:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Really dumb question. > > > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 13:36, McKown, John wrote: > > I don't understand the above statement. I have an OSA card > shared between an > > OS/390 system in one LPAR and a Linux system running under > z/VM in another > > LPAR. I can ping each system from the other as well as get > to outside > > systems. Or were you meaning that the port is "burned" if > there is no > > connection to a LAN. I don't know why anybody would do that. > > Yeah, that was what I meant. > > And the reason you might do that is that you wanted inter-LPAR > communication, and you didn't have HiperSockets available to you, > because your hardware or software was too old to support them, or your > configuration predated HiperSockets' availability and you had a strict > "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" policy at your site. I've seen this > at at least one customer site. > > Adam >
