Re: Change the FSP IP address

So, here is the solution to VMWare part of the issue:

On the wired network where I could access ASMI at the 10.0.10.2 address but could not through the vHMC:  I wasn't thinking through the network routing correctly.  Yes, I needed to connect to the FSP at 10.0.10.2 but I needed to make sure the default gateway for the vHMC console was the same as the default gateway as the host. The IP was set statically and the VM was set to bridge mode but I am pretty sure that if it were assigned by DHCP, it would still work.  The things I missed was 1) The vHMC doesn't need to be on the same network as IBM i and 2) because of #1, I needed to make sure there was a gateway "out" to the IBM i.

On the wireless network at home with the VPN, the important things were: 1) Use NAT for the VM 2) Use the .2 host address of the NAT network (mine was 192.168.47.2) as the gateway.  In this case the vHMC used a DHCP assigned address (got 192.168.47.129) but the default gateway needed to be set to the .2 address that the VMware NAT router used.

Gateway was the key.  With the NAT option on the wireless/VLAN setup what was unclear to me was what IP address to use as the default gateway.

Pete Helgren
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GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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On 12/31/2020 11:16 AM, Pete Helgren wrote:

Thanks....I hope to sort this out today while I have some time. When I am on the laptop at home, I have access to everything on the 10.x.x.x at work including accessing the ASMI at 10.0.10.2 AND when I am on the wired network at work, the vHMC can connect to the FSP at 10.0.10.2.  So, if it were a firewall issue I think it wouldn't work while on the wired network but I tried turning off the firewall and it made no difference.

I'll figure it out and then post the results.  I think it is *just* a network config issue....I suspect something at the VMWare level but not quite sure...

Pete Helgren
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GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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On 12/30/2020 8:18 PM, Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

Pete,

If your on a different VLAN at home, there is a good chance it’s a firewall issue, not sure which ports you need for this.

Paul