On Monday, 08/17/2009 at 04:50 EDT, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote:
> And, just to be clear, this _should_ have nothing to do with the actual
OSA
> hardware, since VSWITCH users never see the real hardware. If it does
have
> something to do with it, then z/VM development will be interested.
The port number specified by a guest using a VSWITCH doesn't actually do
anything. It's a knob that isn't attached to anything ("validate and
ignore"). All virtual ports on a vNIC go to the same place: the VSWITCH.
The VSWITCH decides which physical port to use based on the value on
DEFINE VSWITCH.
You can have a VSWITCH using port 0 and a VSWITCH using port 1 on the same
OSA if you want.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
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