Re: Ethernet Bridging Between IBM i Host and IBM i Guest

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On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 3:12 AM Marc Rauzier <marc.rauzier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is a very good solution. And it can work even with a guest with
high network usage, not only in rare cases as you do.

Thanks. That seems to be the consensus since there is no other easy way
apart from possibly using VIOS to virtualise all the adapters (from what I
have been advised.

Our network guy initially poured cold water on this idea since he said we
don't support layer 2 bridging. But that is on the external network side,
This seems to be an entirely IBMi internal solution that the external

need

not know anything about except the port on the NIC we want to use is
patched into the switch and enabled.

Ethernet bridging through an IBM i partition is available since 2010
with the V7R1, as soon as the hardware supports Virtual Ethernet
switches. Which is the case for all servers supported to run V7R1.

Does this seem correct or have I missed some subtlety here?

As Jim pointed out, the unique sublety is to absolutely take care of not
using the bridge line descriptions (both the physical and virtual ones)
for an IP address. But this will not be your case.

That advice has been noted :-)

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Re: Ethernet Bridging Between IBM i Host and IBM i Guest - query