RE: HMC and Second iSeries

Do you know how tempting that is. Just to change the FSP current IP
address to our LAN and move the cables to the switch. And when we re-do
our LAN at this site so we have 4 zones instead of 1, I will move the
HMC and FSP's to the management LAN where they belong. For now I think
I will set the Eth3 on the HMC to Private and assign it one of the DHCP
ranges that will not interfere with our current network. I will then
change the IP on the FSP to be within that DHCP scope. Then I should be
able to detect it.

Final question, will changing the FSP IP address require the FSP to
reset or affect my running partition in any way?

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.


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Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:20 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: HMC and Second iSeries

It always amazes me the number of people who insist the connection
between
their FSP and their HMC be on a limited private network, and maybe, as a

luxury have a second wire into the HMC for the rest of their network.
Like
people are really more interested into hacking into your FSP than they
are
into the rest of your system.
I say start out with your FSP on the same network as the rest of your
devices and not have to redo stuff later.

This may not help you Chris, but it may help others avoid this same
trap.