MVS Sysplex Distributor and MNLB

[gfischer]

We are planning a configuration with two Sysplex Distributors situated in two separate MVS logical Partitions.

We have only two forwarding agents (6506) which are shared by all the partitions.

So we will have two Service Managers which share two forwarding agents

What is the best way to code this in the 6506?

Should we code only one "ip casa" definition which will be shared by both Service Manager as follow:

ip multicast-routing

ip casa 1.1.1.1 224.0.1.2

forwarding-agent 1637

or should we code one "ip casa" definition per service manager as follow:

ip multicast-routing

ip casa 1.1.1.1 224.0.1.2

forwarding-agent 1637

ip casa 1.1.1.1 224.0.1.4

forwarding-agent 1638

Thanks in advance for your help, Gerard

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