What's New in Administering Network Interfaces

The information in this chapter describes interface configuration starting with the Solaris 10 1/06 release. If you are using the original release of Solaris 10, 3/05, refer to Administering Interfaces in Solaris 10 3/05. For a complete listing of new Oracle Solaris features and a description of Oracle Solaris releases, refer to Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 What’s New.

In Solaris 10 1/06, the following new features were introduced:

• The new dladm command for viewing interface status is introduced in How to Configure a Physical Interface After System Installation.

• VLAN support has extended to GLDv3 interfaces, as explained in Administering Virtual Local Area Networks.

• Link aggregation support is introduced in Overview of Link Aggregations.

In Solaris 10 7/07, the /etc/inet/ipnodes becomes obsolete. Use /etc/inet/ipnodes only for earlier Solaris 10 releases, as explained in the individual procedures.