Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News

This chapter includes information on new features that arrived too late to be included in the Solaris 8 documentation set. For information on new features in the Solaris 8 10/01 operating environment, refer to the Solaris 8 10/01 Update AnswerBook Collection on http://docs.sun.com.

Update Feature Documentation

Some features in this Update release may not have documentation other than man pages. For additional reference, follow the links for documentation on the Solaris 9 operating environment Early Access page at:

http://www.sun.com/solaris/programs/solaris9ea

When accessing Solaris 9 documentation during the beta period, you may be asked to accept a restricted usage license.

Diskless Client Support

The Solaris 8 10/01 operating environment includes diskless client support. Support in this release is limited to SPARC architecture diskless clients from either SPARC or Intel architecture (IA) servers.

Sun currently plans to support IA diskless clients in a future release of the Solaris operating environment.

PIM Kernel Support

The Solaris 8 operating environment includes kernel support for the PIM protocol that is described in RFC 2362. The Solaris 8 operating environment does not include the routing daemons. For users who are using the Solaris 8 operating environment to route their multicast network traffic, implementations of the PIM protocol Sparse mode and Dense mode are at http://netweb.usc.edu/pim.

Configuring Runtime Search Paths

You can now modify the runtime linker's search paths with the -z nodefaultlib option to the ld command and with runtime configuration files that are created by the new utility crle(1).