Thank's Alan, we just realized that since we are using layer 3.
So we have to take a discussion with the network/firewall people here.

Have a nice weekend :)

Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga Hälsningar
  Tore Agblad

   Volvo Information Technology
   Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development
   SE-405 08, Gothenburg  Sweden
   E-mail: [email protected]

   http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/
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From: Linux on 390 Port [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark 
[[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 15:09
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Strange problems adding network adapter no 2 (eth1) in SLES11 SP1

On Friday, 07/09/2010 at 07:29 EDT, Agblad Tore <[email protected]>
wrote:
> It seams that from outside this server the two nicdef 700 and 710 have
the same
> MAC address
> However from inside when issuing IFCONFIG to display, the MACs are
different
> and not any of these
> MAC addresses seen from inside the server is even near the MAC address
as seen
> from outside.

That is how a layer 3 (IP) VSWITCH works; the virtual MAC is not known by
the real network.  If you have network filters/firewalls that don't like
different hosts using the same MAC, then you need to change the VSWITCH to
be layer 2 (ETHERNET) and make any needed Linux config changes.

With a layer 2 VSWITCH you will be responsible for MAC address assignments
and so you will need to set up and manage the VMLAN MACPREFIX in SYSTEM
CONFIG.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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