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Preface

Part I Introducing System Administration: IP Services

1.  Oracle Solaris TCP/IP Protocol Suite (Overview)

Part II TCP/IP Administration

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)

11.  IPv6 in Depth (Reference)

Part III DHCP

12.  About DHCP (Overview)

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)

Part IV IP Security

19.  IP Security Architecture (Overview)

20.  Configuring IPsec (Tasks)

21.  IP Security Architecture (Reference)

22.  Internet Key Exchange (Overview)

23.  Configuring IKE (Tasks)

24.  Internet Key Exchange (Reference)

25.  IP Filter in Oracle Solaris (Overview)

What's New in IP Filter

Packet Filter Hooks

IPv6 Packet Filtering for IP Filter

Introduction to Filter

Information Sources for Open Source IPFilter

IP Filter Packet Processing

Guidelines for Using IP Filter

Using IP Filter Configuration Files

Working With IP Filter Rule Sets

Using IP Filter's Packet Filtering Feature

Configuring Packet Filtering Rules

Using IP Filter's NAT Feature

Configuring NAT Rules

Using IP Filter's Address Pools Feature

Configuring Address Pools

Packet Filter Hooks

IP Filter and the pfil STREAMS Module

IPv6 for IP Filter

IP Filter Man Pages

26.  IP Filter (Tasks)

Part V Mobile IP

27.  Mobile IP (Overview)

28.  Administering Mobile IP (Tasks)

29.  Mobile IP Files and Commands (Reference)

Part VI IPMP

30.  Introducing IPMP (Overview)

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)

37.  IPQoS in Detail (Reference)

Glossary

Index

IP Filter and the pfil STREAMS Module


Note - The pfil module is used with IP filter only on the following Solaris releases:

Beginning with the Solaris 10 7/07 release, the pfil module has been replaced by packet filter hooks and is no longer used with IP filter.


The pfil STREAMS module is required to enable IP Filter. However, IP Filter does not provide an automatic mechanism to push the module on to every interface. Instead, the pfil STREAMS module is managed by the SMF service svc:/network/pfil. To activate filtering on a network interface, you first configure the pfil.ap file. Then you activate the svc:/network/pfil service to supply the pfil STREAMS module to the network interface. For the STREAMS module to take effect, the system must be rebooted or each network interface on which you want filtering must be unplumbed and then re-plumbed. To activate IPv6 packet filtering capabilities, you need to plumb the inet6 version of the interface.

If no pfil modules are found for the network interfaces, the SMF services are put into a maintenance state. The most common cause of this situation is an incorrectly edited /etc/ipf/pfil.ap file. If the service is put into maintenance mode, the occurrence is logged in the filtering log files.

For tasks associated with activating IP Filter, see Configuring IP Filter.