Mobile IP Administration Guide

Preface

The Mobile IP Administration Guide provides information about configuring and managing the Mobile IP framework installed in your Solaris^TM operating environment. This book assumes that you have already installed the SunOS^TM 5.8 operating system, and you have set up any networking software that you plan to use. The SunOS 5.8 operating system is part of the Solaris product family, which includes the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE). The SunOS 5.8 operating system is compliant with AT&T's Unix® System V, Release 4 operating system.

Note –

The Solaris operating environment runs on two types of hardware, or platforms: SPARC^TM and IA. The Solaris operating environment runs on both 64-bit and 32-bit address spaces. The information in this document pertains to both platforms and address spaces unless called out in a special chapter, section, note, bullet, figure, table, example, or code example.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for anyone who administers one or more systems that run the Solaris 8 release. To use this book, you should have one to two years of UNIX® system administration experience. Attending UNIX system administration training courses might be helpful, if you lack the experience.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, Overview of Mobile IP provides an overview of Mobile IP.

Chapter 2, Managing Mobile IP describes conceptual information about the Solaris implementation of Mobile IP.

Chapter 3, Deploying Mobile IP describes how to configure the various Mobile IP parameters using the Mobile IP configuration file. This chapter also provides other useful procedures related to Mobile IP.

Glossary provides definitions of key Mobile IP terms.

Related Books

For useful information about Mobile IP, refer to the following documents:

Perkins, Charles E. Mobile IP Design Principles and Practices. Massachusetts, 1998, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
RFC 2002 from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Available online at [http://ietf.org/rfc.html].
Solomon, James D. Mobile IP The Internet Unplugged. New Jersey, 1998, Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Ordering Sun Documents

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For a list of documents and how to order them, visit the Sun Documentation Center on Fatbrain.com at http://www1.fatbrain.com/documentation/sun.

Accessing Sun Documentation Online

The docs.sun.com^SM Web site enables you to access Sun technical documentation online. You can browse the docs.sun.com archive or search for a specific book title or subject. The URL is http://docs.sun.com.

What Typographic Conventions Mean

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions


Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
`AaBbCc123`	Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value	To delete a file, type `rm` `filename`.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. Do not save changes yet.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P–2 Shell Prompts


Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	`machine_name%`
C shell superuser prompt	`machine_name#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	`#`