System Administration Guide: IP Services

Preface

Welcome to System Administration Guide: IP Services for the Solaris Express, Developer Edition 2/07. This book is part of a nine-volume set that covers a significant part of the Solaris™ system administration information. This book assumes that you have already installed the Solaris operating system (Solaris OS). You should be ready to configure your network or ready to configure any networking software that is required on your network. The Solaris OS is part of the Solaris product family, which also includes the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE). Solaris OS is compliant with AT&T's System V, Release 4 operating system.

Note - This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC®, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported systems appear in the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.

In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:

"x86" refers to the larger family of 64-bit and 32-bit x86 compatible products.
"x64" points out specific 64-bit information about AMD64 or EM64T systems.
"32-bit x86" points out specific 32-bit information about x86 based systems.

For supported systems, see the Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility List.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering systems that run the Solaris OS release, which are configured in a network. To use this book, you should have at least two years of UNIX® system administration experience. Attending UNIX system administration training courses might be helpful.

How the System Administration Volumes Are Organized

Here is a list of the topics that are covered by the volumes of the System Administration Guides.

Book Title	Topics
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration	User accounts and groups, server and client support, shutting down and booting a system, managing services, and managing software (packages and patches)
System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration	Printing services, terminals and modems, system resources (disk quotas, accounting, and crontabs), system processes, and troubleshooting Solaris software problems
System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems	Removable media, disks and devices, file systems, and backing up and restoring data
System Administration Guide: IP Services	TCP/IP network administration, IPv4 and IPv6 address administration, DHCP, IPsec, IKE, Solaris IP filter, Mobile IP, IP network multipathing (IPMP), and IPQoS
System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)	DNS, NIS, and LDAP naming and directory services, including transitioning from NIS to LDAP and transitioning from NIS+ to LDAP
System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+)	NIS+ naming and directory services
System Administration Guide: Network Services	Web cache servers, time-related services, network file systems (NFS and Autofs), mail, SLP, and PPP
System Administration Guide: Security Services	Auditing, device management, file security, BART, Kerberos services, PAM, Solaris cryptographic framework, privileges, RBAC, SASL, and Solaris Secure Shell
System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones	Resource management topics projects and tasks, extended accounting, resource controls, fair share scheduler (FSS), physical memory control using the resource capping daemon (rcapd), and dynamic resource pools; virtualization using Solaris Zones software partitioning technology

Related Books

The following trade books are referred to in this book.

Stevens, W. Richard. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, The Protocols. Addison Wesley, 1994.
Hunt Craig.TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition. O'Reilly, 2002.
Perkins, Charles E. Mobile IP Design Principles and Practices. Massachusetts, 1998, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
Solomon, James D. Mobile IP: The Internet Unplugged. New Jersey, 1998, Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Ferguson, Paul and Geoff Huston. Quality of Service. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.
Kilkki, Kalevi. Differentiated Services for the Internet. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999.

Related Third-Party Web Site References

Third party URLs are referenced in this document and provide additional, related information.

Note - Sun is not responsible for the availability of third-party Web sites mentioned in this document. Sun does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials that are available on or through such sites or resources. Sun will not be responsible or liable for any actual or alleged damage or loss caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services that are available on or through such sites or resources.

Solaris IP Filter is derived from open source IP Filter software. To view license terms, attribution, and copyright statements for IP Filter, the default path is /usr/lib/ipf/IPFILTER.LICENCE. If Solaris OS has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the given path to access the file at the installed location.

Documentation, Support, and Training

The Sun web site provides information about the following additional resources:

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
aabbcc123	Placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is `rm` filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	`machine_name%`
C shell for superuser	`machine_name#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser	`#`