SunScreen 3.1 Installation Guide

Software and Hardware Requirements

The following table lists the minimum hardware and operating system requirements for installing SunScreen.

Table 1-1 SunScreen 3.1 Installation Requirements

Requirement 

Description 

Operating Environment 

  1. Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, or Solaris 8 (with IPv4 only) operating environment for SPARCTM and Intel platforms.

  2. Trusted Solaris 7 for SPARC platforms only.

  3. Requires a Java-enabled Web browser compliant with JDKTM 1.1.3 or later.

Hardware 

  1. All SPARC, UltraSPARC, and Intel platforms supported by the Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, and Solaris 8 operating environment.

  2. All SPARC and UltraSPARC supported by Trusted Solaris 7.

Disk space

Minimum of 1 Gbyte . This space is needed to support the Solaris operating environment, the SunScreen product and sufficient space for storing of packet logs. SunScreen requirements alone are approximately 300 Mbytes 

Memory

  1. Administration Station: Minimum of 32-Mbytes, 64-Mbytes strongly recommended.

  2. Screen: Minimum of 32-Mbytes.

Network interfaces 

  1. For SPARC and UltraSPARC systems in Routing mode:

  • 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces (le, qe, hme, be, qfe)

  • Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

  • Token Ring interfaces

  • ATM (155 and 622 Mbps in LAN emulation mode or Classic IP mode)

  • FDDI, or PCI-based Ethernet cards.

  1. For Intel-based systems: 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces (dnet, elxl). See supported devices listed at: http://access1.sun.com/drivers /hcl/hcl.html

  2. Stealth mode supports 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps Ethernet only.

 

Media

CD-ROM drive (also a diskette drive if using issued certificates).