One gotcha I ran into was in the PROFILE TCPIP in VM, the LINK statement for the VSWITCH needed to be changed to specify ETHERNET from IP. IP is the default. May not have anything to do with this error but something to check.
Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Le Grande Valerie Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 1:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Layer 2 VSWITCH and SUSE 10 starter system problems Hello list, Now that I am back from SHARE, I need to ask help from you all on the list. I had the Novell SUSE 10 starter system (NOVSTART) up and running using a layer 3 VSWITCH and it worked. Our networking team wants us to run the VSWITCH as layer 2 with VLAN aware Linux guests, so I am trying to test that. I have the VSWITCH set up as follows: DEFINE VSWITCH VSWITCH1 RDEV 07D4 0794 ETH VLAN 998 PORTT TRUNK NATIVE 999 MODIFY VSWITCH VSWITCH1 GRANT NOVSTART I have a USER DIRECT statement for the starter system with: NICDEF 0340 TYPE QDIO DEVICE 3 LAN SYSTEM VSWITCH1 In the network parameters that get passed into the starter system, I have changed the LAYER2 parameter from N to Y. I get an IDX TERMINATE with cause code 0xf6, which I have read some of the archives that said that was a layer2/layer3 mismatch error. I am not seeing it. ifconfig only shows the loopback defined with no network connection. A Q NIC from the NOVSTART user after I shutdown the Linux shows: Adapter 0340.P00 Type: QDIO Name: UNASSIGNED Devices:3 MAC: 02-00-00-00-00-02 VSWITCH: SYSTEM VSWITCH1 A Q VSWITCH DETAILS: : (not including the first part - the only part I am not sure of is GVRP is enabled - the rest looks as I would expect) : Adapter connections: Adapter Owner: NOVSTART NIC: 0340.P00 Name: UNASSIGNED Porttype: Trunk I don't really know Linux so I don't know what to look at in Linux file system. I could struggle through vi to manually change something if I have to. My understanding is that I do not need to have IP addresses associated with the OSA ports for the VSWITCH when defined ETHERNET. Anyone have any ideas that can get me going? Am I missing some definition somewhere? Thanks, > Valerie Le Grande > Systems Engineer Senior > Sentry Insurance System Programming and Support > Email: [email protected] Phone: (715)346-7074 This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose or use the information contained in it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please tell us immediately by return e-mail to [email protected] and delete the document. E-mails containing unprofessional, discourteous or offensive remarks violate Sentry policy. You may report employee violations by forwarding the message to [email protected]. No recipient may use the information in this e-mail in violation of any civil or criminal statute. Sentry disclaims all liability for any unauthorized uses of this e-mail or its contents. This e-mail constitutes neither an offer nor an acceptance of any offer. No contract may be entered into by a Sentry employee without express approval from an authorized Sentry manager. Warning: Computer viruses can be transmitted via e-mail. Sentry accepts no liability or responsibility for any damage caused by any virus transmitted with this e-mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
