Installation guide

• add_hhlen

• broadcast_mode

• buffer_count

• canonical_macaddr

• card_type

• checksumming

• chpid

• detach_state

• fake_broadcast

• fake_ll

• ipa_takeover

• portno

• priority_queueing

• recover

• route4

• rxip

• state

• ungroup

• vipa

For information on how these features work, refer to ht-

tp://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/october2005_documentation.html#3

(Device Drivers, Features, and Commands - SC33-8289-02).

Now you need to create the configuration file for your new interface. The network interface con-

figuration files are placed in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/.

The network configuration files use the naming convention ifcfg-device, where device is the

value found in the if_name file in the qeth group device that was created earlier. In this example

it is eth1.

If there is an existing configuration file for another device of the same type already defined, the

simplest solution is to copy it to the new name.

# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

# cp ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth1

If you do not have a similar device defined you must create one. Use this example of ifcfg-eth0

6.1. Adding a qeth Device

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