On Friday, 07/28/2006 at 05:14 AST, "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I'm remembering correctly, the main difference is that your OSA needs > to be connected to a trunk port on the external switch when using an > Ethernet VSwitch.
Nope. An Ethernet VSWITCH just requires an OSA that supports MAC-level routing (aka "layer 2"). An IP VSWITCH (the default) routes packets based on IP address, not MAC. VLAN-aware VSWITCHes need to be plugged into trunk ports. 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
