Hi Gary,
>Anyone know the difference between
>nicdef xxx type qdio lan system PORTNAME
> and
>special xxx qdio lan system PORTNAME
>In the VM directory?
The basic effect is the same. The SPECIAL statement is used for other
things besides virtual NIC definition, so the syntax becomes really
complicated if we extend it much more. The NICDEF statement was created
specifically for virtual NIC definition. Any new features will be added to
NICDEF, but not to the SPECIAL statement.
In this case, you are using the same settings on both statements, so each
time this user logs on it would have the same effect as:
CP DEFINE NIC xxx TYPE QDIO
CP COUPLE xxx TO SYSTEM PORTNAME
However, the NICDEF statement establishes defaults for this device (xxx) on
this user. If the user detaches NIC xxx and then defines it again, the
DEFINE NIC command will lookup the NICDEF for device xxx and use those
defaults. The following command:
CP DEFINE NIC xxx
learns from the NICDEF statement that you want to use TYPE QDIO and COUPLE
to SYSTEM PORTNAME.
Regards,
Dennis
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