Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 05/07/2008 11:50:04 AM:
> >>> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:45 AM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > at>, Fuhrmann > Anna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > (this question is for z-linux in an LPAR, RHEL4) > > > > We use two OSA cards to connect 3 LPARs with the outside world. > > Hipersockets for inter-LPAR- > > communication defined per static route. > > > > Now we want to use VIPA also for the zlinux LPARs. To define VIPA we > > used the documentation provided in the IBM device driver manual and got > > stuck with the example route command there stating: > > > > route add -host [VIPA address] gw [gateway address] > > > > Question: > > what should be inserted here as "gateway address" - should it be > > 1. the IP address of the OSA card or > > 2. possibly something else? und if yes, what? > > You should ask your IP networking folks what the IP address of the > gateway for that VIPA is, and put that IP address into your command. > Normally, a gateway is the first-hop router that packets need to go > to in order to reach their intended destination. A "default > gateway" is the first-hop router that packets go to that don't have > an explicit route defined for them in the TCP/IP stack. Without > knowing the details of your setup, you could be looking for either of those. > We tried to do something with this with SLES 8 at the time. I can't remember exactly we did but I do rememeber we had to have a VIPA gateway. We had an address of 10.207.1.112 on one OSA and 10.207.3.112 on the other OSA. The VIPA was 10.207.5.112 with I believe a gateway of 10.207.5.1. We no longer have that system setup so I can't doublecheck it. When we couldn't get autofailover to work like we wanted, we stopped working on it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
