What's New in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

Networking

Feature Description
SPARC: InterDomain Networks (IDNs) IDNs enable the user to set up high-speed network connections between dynamic system domains without the need for special hardware.
IP Security Architecture (IPsec) for IPv4 IPsec provides protection for IP datagrams. The protection can include confidentiality, strong integrity of the data, partial sequence integrity (replay protection), and data authentication.
IPv6 NFS/RPC Compliant This feature adds IPv6 support to NFS and RPC in a seamless manner. No changes are made to existing commands that are related to NFS. Most RPC applications can also run over IPv6 without any change. Some advanced RPC applications with transport knowledge might require updates.
Logical Link Controller 2 (LLC2) The Class II logical link control driver (LLC2) acts as an interface between network software (NetBIOS, SNA, OSI) that runs under the Solaris operating environment and a physical LAN network that is controlled by one of the supported communications adapters. This version of the LLC2 driver includes support for both connectionless and connection-oriented LLC2 operations for Ethernet, Token Ring, and FDDI adapters when the support is accessed through the appropriate Solaris MAC layer driver.
NIS/NIS+ over IPv6 Transports This feature enables users to perform NIS and NIS+ operations over IPv6 RPC transports, and to store IPv6 addresses in the NIS, NIS+, and DNS naming services.
Enhancements to `sendmail` 8.9.3 New options and utilities improve the storage and security functionality of `sendmail`.
Service Location Protocol (SLP) SLP is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) protocol for discovering shared resources (such as printers, file servers, netcams, and so on) in an enterprise network. The Solaris 8 operating environment contains a full implementation of SLP that includes APIs that enable developers to write SLP-enabled applications, and provides system administrators a framework for ease of network extensibility.
Solaris STREAMS Framework Enhancements The STREAMS framework enhancements in the Solaris 8 operating environment provide more deterministic response times for real-time processes by ensuring that STREAMS processing uses a priority that does not conflict with the user process priority.
Network Time Protocol NTP provides precise time and network clock synchronization for use in distributed computing environments. The Solaris 8 release has been upgraded to include the 3-5.93e version.

Feature Description

SPARC: InterDomain Networks (IDNs)

IDNs enable the user to set up high-speed network connections between dynamic system domains without the need for special hardware.

IP Security Architecture (IPsec) for IPv4

IPsec provides protection for IP datagrams. The protection can include confidentiality, strong integrity of the data, partial sequence integrity (replay protection), and data authentication.

IPv6 NFS/RPC Compliant

This feature adds IPv6 support to NFS and RPC in a seamless manner. No changes are made to existing commands that are related to NFS. Most RPC applications can also run over IPv6 without any change. Some advanced RPC applications with transport knowledge might require updates.

Logical Link Controller 2 (LLC2)

The Class II logical link control driver (LLC2) acts as an interface between network software (NetBIOS, SNA, OSI) that runs under the Solaris operating environment and a physical LAN network that is controlled by one of the supported communications adapters. This version of the LLC2 driver includes support for both connectionless and connection-oriented LLC2 operations for Ethernet, Token Ring, and FDDI adapters when the support is accessed through the appropriate Solaris MAC layer driver.

NIS/NIS+ over IPv6 Transports

This feature enables users to perform NIS and NIS+ operations over IPv6 RPC transports, and to store IPv6 addresses in the NIS, NIS+, and DNS naming services.

Enhancements to sendmail 8.9.3

New options and utilities improve the storage and security functionality of sendmail.

Service Location Protocol (SLP)

SLP is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) protocol for discovering shared resources (such as printers, file servers, netcams, and so on) in an enterprise network. The Solaris 8 operating environment contains a full implementation of SLP that includes APIs that enable developers to write SLP-enabled applications, and provides system administrators a framework for ease of network extensibility.

Solaris STREAMS Framework Enhancements

The STREAMS framework enhancements in the Solaris 8 operating environment provide more deterministic response times for real-time processes by ensuring that STREAMS processing uses a priority that does not conflict with the user process priority.

Network Time Protocol

NTP provides precise time and network clock synchronization for use in distributed computing environments. The Solaris 8 release has been upgraded to include the 3-5.93e version.