Re: Linux LPAR network configuration -- MIDRANGE-L

Yes. That manual, The "Linux on iSeries Implementation Guide", thishelpful guide on Developerworks:http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pow-sles9/#resources,and the Suse site. What is missing in all this a simple, welldescribed, example scenario that says something like:


Your i5 Ethernet address is: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Your i5 Ethernet subnet mask is: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Your i5 Ethernet gateway is: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Your virtual Ethernet address is: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Your virtual Ethernet subnet is: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Your virtual Ethernet gateway is: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Your Linux Ethernet Address is: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Your Linux Ethernet Subnet is: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Your Linux Ethernet Gateway is: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Here is how to configure this.......

Instead we see all the pieces and never the whole Tamale.

I *think* my problem is that I set the virtual Ethernet and the LinuxEthernet addresses the same, which didn't make any sense at the time andstill doesn't (but I had nothing else to go on...). So I need to figureout how to change the Linux addresses from the command line.Thanks for pointing me back to my starting place I had wandered offchasing rabbits for a while. I'll let you know how it goes (once I getthe addresses changed).


Pete


Bryan Dietz wrote:

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

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


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midrange-l-bounces+bdietz=aktion.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/04/200604:42:51 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 theonly-> 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 usethe-> 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 Iam-> a little fuzzy on.->-> Pete Helgren