I have not tested that... So VLAN AWARE should be sufficient even if the vswitch is defined as layer3... correct? On Sep 25, 2015 10:30 PM, "Offer Baruch" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/
