I would also echo Adam's sentiment about keeping the number of point-to-point links per guest small. It becomes a management nightmare more than anything. From your question, I'm assuming you're not up to z/VM 4.3 then?
Heck, no, we just went to z/VM 4.4.
However, and promise not to giggle if you're going to read the rest of this, our network security folks don't want GuestA talking to GuestB directly if they can help it; they'd sleep better at night if they could sniff each packet and be sure nothing hinky is going on. I'd love to use a Hypersockets LAN, but that wouldn't allow that. (Never mind that two AIX systems on the same subnet talk directly without being vetted by the firewall; this is Linux, and the network security folks are convinced that's less secure than our existing platforms.)
Sigh, Nick
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Laflamme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Firewalls?
Related question: are there practical limits to how many point-to-point connections a Linux image can manage?
Thanks, Nick
