Yes - doing this either in the PROFILE EXEC or the directory would eliminate the issue... we were trying to get it working dynamically before we 'hardcoded it' ;-) So this is just a gotcha for dynamic define/coupling... Thanks for your post!
Scott On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Steffen Maier <[email protected]>wrote: > On 08/11/2009 08:31 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: > > #CP DEFINE NIC 900 TYPE QDIO#CP COUPLE 900 GUESTA MYLAN > > > > eth2 came up automatically on Linux and once I did the above on both > guests > > - it worked and I can ping using IP. > > > > So - can you 'stack' commands using the vmcp within Linux? > > Hm, don't know but I fear there will be a race with udev trying to > establish your ccwgroup for eth2 as long as you have > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2 with the parameter > SUBCHANNELS=0.0.0900,0.0.0901,0.0.0902. > > > I believe the > > problem is that Linux recognizes the 900 device -- but brings it online > > using ifcfg-eth2 before it's actually coupled to the lan - which causes > it > > to be inoperable. Doing the couple immediately following seems to work > -- > > Nice analysis. > > > so maybe all I needed was to put the vmcp commands in a script so it > > happened soon enough? > > I define my GuestLANs in profile.exec so I've never run into the problem > you encountered with dynamic definition. Defining and coupling before > the guest OS runs is the safest choice that comes to my mind. Would that > work for you? Otherwise you could define and couple and only then create > the ifcfg file, and finally activate it with udevtrigger. > > Steffen > > Linux on System z Development > > IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter > Geschäftsführung: Erich Baier > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen > Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
