On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 07:06, Davis, Larry wrote: > I thought OSPF was a routing protocol and if all the VSWITCH users are on > the same subnet than why do they need a router?
Because people outside that subnet may want to get to them? Sure, VSWITCH guests will all be able to see each other with no other routing information...but if they want to get to the rest of the world, or vice versa then there's got to be some routing information. I suspect that what you're thinking is that the VSWITCH guests will be bridged into a company-wide flat-at-layer-2 VLAN, which is not uncommon, but it's certainly not required. I'd guess that most organizations big enough to own a zSeries have many separate internal network zones for security reasons if nothing else, and there's got to be some way to selectively route traffic between those zones. 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
