Thanks Alan you got me thinking. Here is what I ended up doing. There is a table in xCAT for mac addresses. What I did was to manually change that address to match the z/VM assigned address from the NICDEF .. Then it all worked.
I suppose another, maybe better way would to use the xCAT generated mac address in the NICDEF statement. Whatever works.. Tom On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
