Ok, that removes one layer of the onion. Now, why do these users want to access the system with an IP address in the same subnet as they are in? What does that buy them?
(Understand, that for that to work, the OSA card would actually need to be on the same physical LAN segment. When a TCP/IP stack is going to send a packet to an IP address in the same subnet, it expects to be able to do an arp and get a response back of the MAC address associated with that IP address.) So, what are _they_ trying to accomplish by this? Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Froberg, David C Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can multiple ethx be defined on one OSA-E port </snip on> Yes, you can do it the way you asked. I guess the real question is: what are you trying to accomplish? The answer to that may be radically different from what you're trying to do. </snip off> Thanks, Mark. Fair question. The OSA-E card has one port connected to a switch to the intranet and a given IP address is assocated with the network interface. A group of users would like to access the lpar but with an IP address that reflects their subnet. So I thought one way be be to define another eth_ and associate their IP address scheme with it. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
