On Friday, 02/13/2009 at 01:15 EST, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 2/13/2009 at 1:01 PM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]> wrote: > -snip- > > Eh? The OSA (real or virtual) already has a MAC address. You aren't > > required to ifconfig a MAC address to bring up an OSA with Layer 2, so why > > does the install want one? (The drivers extract the burned-in or > > otherwise currently set MAC address.) > > Perhaps so it can know just which one you want to use. The whole point of the > parmfile is to specify everything that is needed to get the right network parms > set up on the right hardware and accessing the right network installation > source.
Agreed, but a manually set MAC address is not *needed* on ANY platform. EVERY nic has burned-in MAC that can be used. Does SLES install on Intel prompt for MAC address, too? > > (And why is the parameter specific to OSA? *OSA*HWaddr? Other platforms > > have MACs, too.) > > No other platform has a parmfile read in from the z/VM virtual reader. Are you trying to tell me my shoelaces are untied? :-) Why does the source of a parmfile dictate the parameter names? I'm just surprised that it isn't HWaddr= as I would expect it to be on all platforms for any ethernet adapter. 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
