Re: Installing PTFs via netshare

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

    Short answer "Yes".  Each client needs a dedicate LAN card to be 
used as the service tools interface. The card CAN be a virtual adapter, 
a port on the IVE, or a separate physical port on a real card.  OK YOU 
COULD share by varying off the current Line Description, configuring the 
service tools LAN adapter, and then going back but that's a pain for 
many reasons.

    I use this a TON on both internal virtual LANs and physical LANs 
and it is wonderful once you get your head around it. Mostly I create a 
completely separate internal vlan to use for this function only and 
configure every partition to have a service tools interface on it.

    The server (or host) does NOT need a dedicated card as you are 
essentially using NFS to access the files there. HOWEVER it's not in the 
documentation that this function will NOT WORK if you have Jumbo Frames 
(frames larger than 1500 bytes) configured on the Host partition 
interface that's being used for this function.  WHY it's not in there 
YET (It's been well over a year) is beyond me. They even got cranky with 
me because I had Jumbos on yet couldn't point to where it said not to. 
(So you have been warned. :-)  )

    - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis.

On 8/22/2012 11:53 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am following the directions in
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzam4/rzam4setupvoswithinnfsnetwork.htm
> Do I have to have a dedicated lan card for this on each client?  If not,
> how do I get this to work?
>
> Rob Berendt