Re: Linux LPAR network configuration

Pete,  I have up these before.  Have you made use of the following 
redbook:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4013.html?Open

It is very helpful.  Let us know how this works...


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Bryan Dietz 
Aktion Associates 



midrange-l-bounces+bdietz=aktion.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/04/2006 
04:42:51 PM:

-> 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