The guest being unaware says nothing about the real connection to the OSA card. If the osa is connected to a trunk port and the vlan is tagged, then the vswitch must be set to layer2 and vlan aware to strip the vlan tag and forward the data to the guest as if it is a regular access port without vlan tagging...
Makes sense or did i miss understand your question again? On Sep 25, 2015 9:50 PM, "Mark Post" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 9/25/2015 at 02:41 PM, Offer Baruch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not sure if i understand your question but yes i am sure. > > When using a layer2 vswitch you have to specify the layer2 option on > > znetconf/qeth_configure and on your ifcfg file or your NIC will simply > > won't get online. > > That I understand. What I'm not sure about is that Layer2 is required in > the first place. I don't see any reason why a VLAN unaware guest couldn't > use either a Layer3 or Layer2 NIC. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
