On Friday, 04/22/2016 at 02:41 GMT, Grzegorz Powiedziuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > 3. Less common, useful in some cases - OSA is plugged into "trunk" port on > real switch and in general same as (2). But, when you do grant, you can say > that this specific grant should act as "porttype trunk" (and you specify > which vlans are trunked) so VSWITCH instead of removing the vlan tag, > forwards the whole thing to linux guest. So linux guest should be > configured to receive and send tagged frames. As Mark mentioned, during > install process it might be troublesome.
Please don't do this. Instead, use a PORTBASED VSWITCH so that you can two vNICs, each assigned to a different VLAN on the same VSWITCH. Except for a VSWITCH sniffer, there's no longer any need for Linux to be VLAN-aware when running as a guest. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group 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/
