On Thursday, 08/24/2006 at 01:33 MST, "Stricklin, Raymond J"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am trying to set up DHCP for linux users on our VSWITCH.
> >
> > Right now I have two linux users, both on VSWITCH. One is the DHCP
> > server (SLES9 SP2 with ISC dhcpd), and one is the DHCP client (SLES10
> > with dhcpcd).
> >
> > The client sends its VM user name as its DHCP client identifier; the
> > server assigns a fixed address using that instead of the ethernet MAC
> > address, as our VSWITCH is running in layer 3.

Easiest is to change to use a Layer 2 VSWITCH (TYPE ETHERNET).  To use
DHCP with Layer 3, you have to get the device driver to generate fake
ethernet frame headers.  E.g. For NIC A000 on SLES9:

/etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-qeth-bus-ccw-0.0.a000:
CCW_CHAN_IDS='0.0.a000 0.0.a001 0.0.a002'
CCW_CHAN_MODE='OSAPORT'
CCW_CHAN_NUM='3'
MODULE='qeth'
MODULE_OPTIONS=''
SCRIPTDOWN='hwdown-ccw'
SCRIPTUP='hwup-ccw'
SCRIPTUP_ccw='hwup-ccw'
SCRIPTUP_ccwgroup='hwup-qeth'
STARTMODE='auto'
QETH_OPTIONS='fake_ll=1'    <---- look here!

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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