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  3. May 2006

Linux LPAR network configuration

I have loaded Linux on a LPAR that I cannot connect to currently using VNC and I am trying to figure out why. The networking piece is the only thing that I am a little uncertain about. I am trying to figure out what the relationship is between the Virtual Ethernet ID's that you set up in the partition (I used VPM), the Virtual Ethernet Adapter that was defined in i5/OS and the *actual* address of the Linux server itself. I have assumed (and I need verification on this) that if I was able to start the Telnet session for installing Linux that the IP configuration is correct.
I can log in to the text based console using Putty, but it doesn't seem to be responding to VNC (which would be MUCH easy to use to manage this thing). I configured the Ethernet adapter in the Linux setup to use the same IP/NetMask and Gateway as the virtual Ethernet adapter on the i5 (the default was DHCP). Was that correct? Or should I have used a different IP address in the same subnet?
I am not a Linux guru by any stretch but I feel very comfortable with network configuration and TCP/IP. It is the "virtualization" of everything and how it relates to the actual Linux installation that I am a little fuzzy on. 

Pete Helgren

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