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Linux® on the Mainframe
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Linux® on the Mainframe

by John Eilert, Maria Eisenhaendler, Dorothea Matthaeus, Ingolf Salm
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
Pearson
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24.1. zSeries virtual connections

z/VM provides two major TCP/IP connectivity options for Linux guests: Linux can be given access to a real connection, or to a virtual connection. The virtual connections are described in this section. They are generally used to connect Linux to another Linux guest on the same z/VM system. The other Linux guest might have access to a real network connection and act as an IP router or gateway.

zSeries virtual connections include HiperSockets, virtual channel-to-channel (CTC), and the Inter-User Communication Vehicle (IUCV).

24.1.1. HiperSockets

The zSeries HiperSockets function (HiperSockets) is a microcode function supported by the operating systems z/OS V1R2, z/VM V4R2, VSE/ESA 2.7, Linux for zSeries (64-bit ...

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