Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR IBM S-390 AND IBM ESERVER ZSERIES Installation Manual page 19

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PEERID=<userid>
Where represents the ID of the guest machines you want to connect to. Note that
<userid>
the ID must be written in capital letters. For example, a PEERID connection to a z/VM TCP/IP
service machine should be written as:
PEERID=TCPIP
Note that the PEERID parameter replaces the IUCV parameter used with the Linux kernel
version 2.4.
The following parameters are optional:
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HOSTNAME=<string>
Where is the hostname of the newly-installed Linux guest.
<string>
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NETTYPE=<type>
Where must be one of the following:
<type>
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IPADDR=<IP>
Where is the IP address of the new Linux guest.
<IP>
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NETWORK=<network>
Where is the address of your network.
<network>
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NETMASK=<netmask>
Where is the netmask.
<netmask>
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BROADCAST=<broadcast>
Where
<broadcast>
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GATEWAY=<gw>
Where is either the gateway-IP for your
<gw>
ctc/escon/iucv point-to-point partner.
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MTU=<mtu>
Where is the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) for this connection.
<mtu>
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DNS=<server1>:<server2>:...:<serverN>
Where
<server1>:<server2>:...:<serverN>
For example:
is the broadcast address.
, , , or
ctc iucv lcs qeth
device or the IP address of the
eth
is a list of DNS servers, separated by colons.
Installing under z/VM
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