DLSW and the MAC that won't bridge....

I'm trying to migrate from a CIP attached router (7204) to an OSA card on our mainframe for our SNA connectivity. I've run into a bit of an odd problem.
It seems I can make a connection to the MAC on the OSA card from a subnet within my data center (I've tried several), but I can't make one work from a remote location via DLSW. The same connections work to the CIP attached router. To me, it looks like I have a problem with bridging, but I'm not 100% sure. I'm tring to connect to 00096b1ade31 on SAP 4.
I have a DLSW tunnel up and running from my remote location directly to my core switch (6509). The MAC in question is attached directly to the same core switch. I have bridging enabled on the VLAN, but I don't see the MAC in the bridge table. I do however see the MAC in the MAC address table.
WPG6509-A#SH DLSW REA
DLSw Local MAC address reachability cache list
Mac Addr status Loc. port rif
0000.836c.4278 FOUND LOCAL TBridge-001 --no rif--
0000.c1a2.e717 FOUND LOCAL TBridge-001 --no rif--
0002.319c.6194 FOUND LOCAL TBridge-001 --no rif--
0002.31b8.1483 FOUND LOCAL TBridge-001 --no rif--
0002.31b8.1576 FOUND LOCAL TBridge-001 --no rif--
0002.31b8.20e0 FOUND LOCAL TBridge-001 --no rif--
0002.31c6.39c7 FOUND LOCAL TBridge-001 --no rif--
0009.6b1a.de31 SEARCHING LOCAL
0020.00a4.5a28 FOUND LOCAL TBridge-001 --no rif--
0070.3006.5d03 FOUND LOCAL TBridge-001 --no rif--
4000.2216.3002 FOUND LOCAL TBridge-001 --no rif--
4080.0000.0000 FOUND LOCAL TBridge-001 --no rif--
DLSw Remote MAC address reachability cache list
Mac Addr status Loc. peer
0002.31b8.1483 FOUND REMOTE 10.89.1.2(2065)
0009.6b1a.de31 SEARCHING REMOTE
4000.0255.1091 SEARCHING REMOTE
WPG6509-A#sh mac-address-table | include de31
* 300 0009.6b1a.de31 dynamic Yes 0 Gi2/1
WPG6509-A#
WPG6509-A#sh run int vlan 300
Building configuration...
Current configuration : 282 bytes
interface Vlan300
description Mainframe VLAN
ip address 10.3.1.2 255.255.255.0
no ip redirects
ip directed-broadcast 176
ip route-cache flow
ip ospf network broadcast
standby 3 ip 10.3.1.1
standby 3 priority 125
standby 3 preempt
bridge-group 1
hold-queue 1000 in
end
WPG6509-A#sh run int gig 2/12
Building configuration...
Current configuration : 92 bytes
interface GigabitEthernet2/12
switchport
switchport access vlan 300
no ip address
end
Other config tidbits:
bridge 1 protocol vlan-bridge
WPG6509-A#sh run | include dlsw
dlsw local-peer peer-id 10.3.4.1
dlsw remote-peer 0 tcp 10.123.1.1
dlsw remote-peer 0 tcp 10.89.1.2
dlsw remote-peer 0 tcp 10.149.2.1
dlsw icanreach sap 0 4
dlsw bridge-group 1
Ideas welcome!

Hi Tom,
The OSA has to be set up in non-QDIO mode.
Here is a link to an IBM redbook that should help, see Chapter 7.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245948.html?Open
I assume that you have an XCA and a Switched Major Node defined for this and both are active. When you see the MAC seraching, at the router local to the OSA, there is a test frame being sent out to the OSA. If the OSA answers test, then from the "show dlsw reach", it will change to "found".
We did have a problem where voice discovery caused a problem for the OSA, but this would prevent the link from connecting, see Bug ID CSCea90470. Sounds like this is not the case here.
I suggest sniffing the port where the OSA is connected to see if the test frame is going out to the OSA. If so and the OSA is not answering the test, then you may have to enlist IBM support at that point.
Jim

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