Part I Introducing System Administration: IP Services
1. Oracle Solaris TCP/IP Protocol Suite (Overview)
2. Planning Your TCP/IP Network (Tasks)
3. Introducing IPv6 (Overview)
4. Planning an IPv6 Network (Tasks)
5. Configuring TCP/IP Network Services and IPv4 Addressing (Tasks)
6. Administering Network Interfaces (Tasks)
7. Configuring an IPv6 Network (Tasks)
8. Administering a TCP/IP Network (Tasks)
9. Troubleshooting Network Problems (Tasks)
10. TCP/IP and IPv4 in Depth (Reference)
13. Planning for DHCP Service (Tasks)
14. Configuring the DHCP Service (Tasks)
15. Administering DHCP (Tasks)
16. Configuring and Administering the DHCP Client
17. Troubleshooting DHCP (Reference)
18. DHCP Commands and Files (Reference)
19. IP Security Architecture (Overview)
21. IP Security Architecture (Reference)
22. Internet Key Exchange (Overview)
24. Internet Key Exchange (Reference)
25. IP Filter in Oracle Solaris (Overview)
28. Administering Mobile IP (Tasks)
29. Mobile IP Files and Commands (Reference)
30. Introducing IPMP (Overview)
Oracle Solaris IPMP Components
Multipathing Daemon, in.mpathd
Failure Detection and Failover
Preventing Applications From Using Test Addresses
Standby Interfaces in an IPMP Group
Common IPMP Interface Configurations
Checking the Status of an Interface
IPMP Failure Detection and Recovery Features
Detecting Physical Interface Repairs
What Happens During Interface Failover
IPMP and Dynamic Reconfiguration
NICs That Were Missing at System Boot
31. Administering IPMP (Tasks)
Part VII IP Quality of Service (IPQoS)
32. Introducing IPQoS (Overview)
33. Planning for an IPQoS-Enabled Network (Tasks)
34. Creating the IPQoS Configuration File (Tasks)
35. Starting and Maintaining IPQoS (Tasks)
36. Using Flow Accounting and Statistics Gathering (Tasks)
IPMP is built into Oracle Solaris and does not require any special hardware. Any interface that is supported by Oracle Solaris can be used with IPMP. However, IPMP does impose the following requirements on your network configuration and topology:
All interfaces in an IPMP group must have unique MAC addresses.
Note that by default, the network interfaces on SPARC based systems all share a single MAC address. Thus, you must explicitly change the default in order to use IPMP on SPARC based systems. For more information, refer to How to Plan for an IPMP Group.
All interfaces in an IPMP group must be of the same media type. For more information, refer to IPMP Group.
All interfaces in an IPMP group must be on the same IP link. For more information, refer to IPMP Group.
Note - Multiple IPMP groups on the same link layer (L2 or layer 2) broadcast domain are unsupported. A L2 broadcast domain typically maps to a specific subnet. Therefore, you must configure only one IPMP group per subnet.
Depending on your failure detection requirements, you might need to either use specific types of network interfaces or configure additional IP addresses on each network interface. Refer to Link-Based Failure Detection and Probe-Based Failure Detection.