On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 16:15, Lionel Dyck wrote: > we are once again embarking on a linux on zseries pilot and our mainframe > network folks are arguing about things (z/vm routing or use direct to > linux for the route) while our network engineers are saying no static > routing period. > > what i'd like is your recommendations on what the best setup would be for > the following: > > 1 z900 IFL > 1 OSA Express GB > 1 z/VM 5.1 > 4 to 20 SuSE linux servers > > I'm assuming a vlan is the way to go but networking is not my forte.
Use VSWITCH. It's the best of both worlds: uses a guest LAN internally, but only one OSA port, and it looks like you have a bunch of Linux guests directly plugged into the switch. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
