Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR IBM S-390 AND IBM ESERVER ZSERIES Installation Manual page 13

Chapter 1. Steps to Get You Started
• CHANDEV= device
¨
Where:
is the type of device (for example,
device

¨ ©
is the input port for this device
input

¨ ©
is the output port for this device
output

¨ ©
For example:
CHANDEV=ctc0,0x600,0x601
CHANDEV=escon0,0x605,0x608
CHANDEV=qeth,0x700,0x701,0x702,0,0
To force a specific CTC protocol, additionals parameters can be added. For example:
CHANDEV=ctc0,0x600,0x601,0,
Where is one of the following:
n
 
for compatibility mode (used with non-Linux peers other than S/390 and zSeries operating
0

systems)
for extended mode
1

for CTC-based tty (only supported on Linux-to-Linux connections)
2

for compatibility mode with S/390 and zSeries operating systems
3

• IUCV= userid
¨ ©
Where
userid
¨ ©
ID must be written in capital letters. For example, an IUCV connection to the VM TCP/IP service
machine should be written as:
IUCV=TCPIP
The following parameters are optional:
• HOSTNAME= string
¨
Where
string
¨ ©
• NETTYPE= type
¨
Where must be one of the following:
type
¨ ©
•
IPADDR= IP
¨ ©
Where is the IP address of the new Linux guest.
IP
¨ ©
• NETWORK= network
¨
Where
network
¨
• NETMASK= netmask
¨
Where
netmask
¨
•
BROADCAST= broadcast
¨
Where
broadcast
¨
• GATEWAY= gw
¨ ©
Where is either the gateway-IP for your
gw
¨ ©
point-to-point partner.
• MTU= mtu
¨ ©
, input , output
© ¨ © ¨
n
¨
represents the ID of the guest machines you want to connect to. Note that the
©
is the hostname of the newly-installed Linux guest.
©
©
is the address of your network.
©
©
is the netmask.
©
©
is the broadcast address.
©
©
,
ctc0 escon0
©
, ,
ctc escon tr
device or the IP address of the ctc/escon/iucv
eth
, or )
lcs0
, , , or .
hsi iucv eth
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