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I think I may not have been clear with my request. I am not implying performing pvcauth via the RMC port, that would definitely not work. I was suggesting performing all the pvcauth and rest functions via the usual ports but using the TCP6 locallink interface between the client VM and the Novalink partition instead. Then Novalink will proxy this communication back to PowerVC via the management network. This is currently how RMC communication works when using NovaLink (hence the comparison).
Currently if you install Novalink sshd listens on all interfaces by default and you can actually ssh to the Novalink partition via the TCP6 locallink interface (really bad default security by the way). So perhaps create a daemon to listen on the pvcauth and rest ports and listen on the Novalink TCP6 locallink interface and subsequently forward it to PowerVC via the TCP4 management network.