How This Book Is Organized

SunScreen 3.1 Reference Manual, For the Solaris Operating Environment contains the following chapters and appendices:

• Chapter 1, SunScreen Overview provides a brief overview of the SunScreen product, including operating system and hardware requirements and compatibility.

• Chapter 2, SunScreen Concepts discusses Security considerations, Administration, Security policy, and Proxies

• Chapter 3, Packet Screening explains dynamic packet filtering, policy versions, interfaces, administration, security policy, proxies, and rules

• Chapter 4, Administration describes the types of administration possible including information on remote administration, local administration, centralized management groups of Screens, and creating common objects and policies for multiple Screens

• Chapter 5, Administration Graphical User Interface explains the graphical user interface (GUI), including navigation, page descriptions, and field descriptions.

• Chapter 6, Encryption, Tunneling, and Virtual Private Networks describes encryption and decryption, how SunScreen uses encryption, and setting up and using a virtual private network.

• Chapter 7, Network Address Translation contains information on NAT rules, static and dynamic NAT, and examples of NAT.

• Chapter 8, High Availability describes high availability (HA), developing a high-availability (HA) policy, how HA works, and configuring HA.

• Chapter 9, Authentication discusses user authentication, authorized user, administrative user, proxy user, details of RADIUS user authentication, and SecurID Authentication

• Chapter 10, Proxies describes SunScreen proxies including how proxies work, proxy user authentication, FTP proxy, HTTP proxy, SMTP proxy, and Telnet proxy.

• Chapter 11, Logging contains information on packet logging, log file locations, configuring traffic log size, retrieving and clearing logs, log statistics, inspecting and browsing logs, enhancement, and log macros.

• Appendix A, Migrating From Previous SunScreen Firewall Products contains a table comparing the commands from SunScreen EFS and SunScreen SPF-200 to the equivalent commands used in SunScreen.

• Appendix B, Command-Line Reference documents the command-line interface.

• Appendix C, Services and State Engines lists the services and state engines supported by SunScreen.

• Appendix D, Error Messages lists the error messages generated by SunScreen.

• Glossary lists the terms and their definitions used in the SunScreen documentation.