Routing Sockets

The Solaris operating environment now conforms to the de facto routing socket interface as implemented by 4.4 BSD. This interface enables netmask information to be shared between routing protocol implementations and the kernel. It can also be used by implementations of CIDR-aware routing protocols.

Although the Solaris software does not deliver a routing daemon that implements these protocols, TCP/IP administrators are advised to contact the Merit GateD Consortium (http://www.gated.org/) for information on Gated. Gated is a program that implements these and other routing protocols and uses the routing socket interface.