Routing with OptiConnect and logical partitions

OptiConnect can connect multiple System i™ platforms by using a high-speed, fiber-optic bus. This information covers using OptiConnect with logical partitions and the advantages of using them.

OptiConnect and logical partitions provide other environments for you to use the routing basics of proxy ARP, point-to-point, and virtual IP interfaces. Here are a few different methods of these basics.

• TCP/IP and OptiConnect
  OptiConnect can give you the ability to define TCP/IP connections over an OptiConnect bus. This topic describes this feature and how it might be used.

• Routing with virtual OptiConnect and logical partitions
  Virtual OptiConnect TCP/IP interfaces are used as interpartition communication paths.

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