Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Online Release Notes Update

Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News

The following feature description has been added to this chapter since this document was last published on the Solaris 8 Documentation CD.

PIM Kernel Support

The Solaris 8 operating environment includes kernel support for the PIM protocol as described in RFC 2362. The Solaris 8 operating environment does not include the routing daemons, but for those users who want to use Solaris 8 operating environment to route their multicast network traffic, implementations of the PIM protocol (both Sparse and Dense mode) may be found at http://netweb.usc.edu/pim.

Configuring Runtime Search Paths

You can now modify the runtime linkers search paths with the -z nodefaultlib option to the ld command and with runtime configuration files created by the new utility crle(1).