On Wednesday, 07/30/2014 at 11:14 EDT, Tom Huegel <[email protected]> wrote: > Yea Alan, I kind of figured that something like that was going on. I don't > specify any MACID on the NICDEF or any SET NIC commands. > There must be something in the SUSE11 installation script. > I'm using xCAT (z/VM 6.3) to do the provisioning. It all seemed to be > working as shown in the xCAT tutorial (SourceForge) but something is going > on here.
Not surprising, as other platforms don't protect the MAC address. If MAC addresses are to be assigned, then they need to be specified in the NICDEF or via COMMAND SET NIC during the vNIC manufacturing process, not at the whim of a some random guest. Only trustworthy guests that have a specific documented need to set their MAC address should be permitted to do so. IMO, of course. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
