I'm pretty sure PORTNAME is optional (at least in RHEL 5). My CONF has PORTNAME="" in it
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hughes, Jim Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Linux, VSWITCH, and?? Here is our NICDEF statement in our Linux machine. NICDEF BC0 TYPE QDIO DEV 3 LAN SYSTEM VSWZVM01 Here is our RedHat Parm statements related to networking. When Redhat starts up, it is asking us for a portname. Color us confused. NETTYPE=eth NETWORK=172.16.32.0 CHANDEV=eth0,0xBC0,0xBC1,0xBC2 Thanks for your patience. ___________________ Jim Hughes Consulting Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-5586 Fax 603.271.1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user of the e-mail address to which it was addressed and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee of this e-mail you should not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it or any part of it in any form whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us by telephone or e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and then delete this e-mail and other copies of it from your computer system. We reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through our network. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
