On Friday, 01/23/2009 at 01:30 EST, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > > Then this must be a Layer 3 VSWITCH where we don't care about or use guest > > MACs. A Layer 2 VSWITCH (required for LACP) enforces unique MACs. > > Nope, it's Layer 2. If I tried to use a Layer 3, it didn't work. (It would > appear to, but the system wouldn't think there was a link established.) It may > be that the MAC is viewed as being the same by the kernel, but the VSWITCH > doesn't modify it's control blocks to match.
A mystery indeed. As Pieter suggested, seeing the output of QUERY NIC DETAILS would be edifying. 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
