Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News

This chapter includes information on new features that arrived too late to be included in the Solaris 8 documentation set. For information on new features in the Solaris 8 7/01 operating environment, refer to the Solaris 8 7/01 Update AnswerBook Collection on http://docs.sun.com.

Diskless Client Support

The Solaris 8 7/01 operating environment includes diskless client support. Support in this release is limited to SPARC architecture diskless clients from either SPARC or Intel architecture [IA] servers.

Sun currently plans to support IA diskless clients in a future release of the Solaris operating environment.

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 the 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).