Thanks Alan from your response I did a little perusing of the Doc. Layer 2 is available at zVM 5.1(poss 4.4)? How will the define vswitch that does not specify IP or ETHERNET default? Could you give me some examples within a zVM Linux VLAN infrastructure you would want/need layer 2? Possibly apps that will require MAC level support or the response improvments provided by Layer 2 support? Thanks, Alan Schilla State of Minnesota
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:55 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Can't get vlan to work on suse sles9 64-bit On Wednesday, 05/11/2005 at 09:42 EST, Alan Schilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen this mentioned before but I fail to understand the meaning. By layer > three are you saying do not use VSWITCH? The VSWITCH is capable of offering its services in layer 2 mode (ethernet) or layer 3 (IP). If the vswitch is operating in layer 2 mode, then the guests must drive their virtual adapaters in layer 2 mode also. It's just a matter of whether the guest is sending/receiving ethernet frames and handling ARPs itself (layer 2), or whether the guest sends/receives IP packets (no frame headers/trailers) and the OSA takes care of the ARPs (layer 3). The VLAN capabilities of the vswitch are the same in either case. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
