On Monday, 01/14/2008 at 04:19 EST, Brad Hinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I assume the routing options don't take effect unless there's an > external OSA interface defined. Is this true? Yes. > If so, does the VSWITCH > act in NONROUTER or PRIROUTER mode before the OSA is defined? Not applicable since there are no inbound packets from an OSA. > The goal is to send packets to another network through the Linux router > attached to this VSWITCH, but the VSWITCH seems to discard these packets > as if NONROUTER were set. Is this a case where a GuestLAN is a better > fit than a VSWITCH with no external interface? Make sure the Linux guest has configured PRIROUTER in it's network config. The other guests are delivering packets to the Linux guest's virtual NIC that do not have Linux's own IP address in them. As with a real OSA, PRIROUTER is required to get the NIC to accept all IP addresses. Alternatively, change to a layer 2 VSWITCH. Then all the PRIROUTER stuff goes away. 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
