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Hi Fish, I tried your BEAR patch and VM/370 Community Edition, VM/ESA 2.4 and z/VM 6.1 all started and shutdown. I also tried ESA/390, z/OS and zLinux. Other than zLinux...

While I would agree that testing the contents of the returned facility bits is fairly pointless, I do not agree with jettisoning the tests, particularly for STFLE. The outputs from...

I suppose the zArch related facility bits might also need to be tested, depending on the arch mode existing when the instruction is issued?

True enough, but I wasn't really thinking in terms of facility related instructions. I was thinking that if Hercules is running in zArch mode it should have facility bits 1...

> we are definitely _NOT_ doing what real OSA's do Are you saying that as someone who does know what real OSA's do? I am the author of parts of...

The home IPv4 address of each and every defined device/link or interface (OSA, VIPA, what ever) is sent to each and every OSA as a VIPA address. This is how...

The abends result from the use of the VLEG (VECTOR LOAD ELEMENT) instruction which is provided by the Vector Facility for z/Architecture, a facility that Hercules does not support or...

I suppose the question to ask is does this problem occur when you use standard frames rather than jumbo frames, i.e. using an MTU of 1500? I have no experience...

Hmm... remarkably easy to reproduce when the client and the server are both running on the same host (i.e there is no physical network between the client and the server),...

Hi Fish. No, the problem isn't on the tuntap side of Hercules, the problem is between Hercules and the qeth/qdio driver of the Linux guest. Whether the problem is caused...