Preface

System Administration Guide, IP Services is part of a seven-volume set that covers a significant part of the Solaris^TM system administration information. This book assumes that you have already installed the SunOS^TM 5.9 operating system, and you have set up any networking software that you plan to use. The SunOS 5.9 operating system is part of the Solaris product family, which also includes the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE). The SunOS 5.9 operating system is compliant with AT&T's System V, Release 4 operating system.

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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.

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Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the Solaris 9 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.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 2, TCP/IP (Overview) provides an overview of TCP/IP and its components. This chapter also provides an introduction to the Internet Protocol Suite.

Chapter 3, Planning Your TCP/IP Network (Task) describes how to plan your TCP/IP network.

Chapter 4, Administering TCP/IP (Task) describes how to administer TCP/IP within the Solaris operating environment on your network.

Chapter 5, TCP/IP (Reference) provides reference information about the implementation of TCP/IP on your network.

Chapter 7, About Solaris DHCP (Overview) provides an overview of DHCP and its components. This chapter also describes how DHCP works within the Solaris operating environment on your network.

Chapter 8, Planning for DHCP Service (Task) describes what you need to do before setting up the DHCP service on your network.

Chapter 9, Configuring DHCP Service (Task) describes how you configure the DHCP service on your network. This chapter also provides instructions on how to use the DHCP Manager.

Chapter 10, Administering DHCP (Task) describes tasks that enable you to administer the Solaris DHCP service on your network.

Chapter 11, Troubleshooting DHCP (Reference) provides information to help you solve problems that you might encounter when you configure a DHCP server or client.

Chapter 12, DHCP Files and Commands (Reference) provides reference information about the commands and files that are used by the DHCP service on your network.

Chapter 14, IPv6 (Overview) provides an overview of the new Internet Protocol that is known as IPv6.

Chapter 15, Administering IPv6 (Task) provides procedures for enabling IPv6 and IPv6 routers, configuring IPv6 addresses for DNS, NIS, and NIS+, creating tunnels between routers, running IPv6 additions to commands for diagnostics, and displaying IPv6 name service information.

Chapter 16, IPv6 Files and Commands (Reference) describes the concepts that are associated with the Solaris implementation of IPv6.

Chapter 17, Transitioning From IPv4 to IPv6 (Reference) provides an overview of the approach and the standardized solutions to transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6.

Chapter 19, IPsec (Overview) provides an overview of the new IP Security Architecture that provides protection for IP datagrams.

Chapter 20, Administering IPsec (Task) provides procedures for implementing IPsec on your network.

Chapter 21, Internet Key Exchange provides an overview and procedures for implementing IKE for use with IPsec.

Chapter 23, Mobile IP (Overview) provides an overview of the new Mobile IP service that enables the transfer of information to and from mobile computers, such as laptops and wireless communications.

Chapter 24, Administering Mobile IP (Task) provides procedures for modifying, adding, deleting, and displaying parameters in the Mobile IP configuration file. This chapter also shows you how to display mobility agent status.

Chapter 25, Mobile IP Files and Commands (Reference) describes the components that are provided with the Solaris implementation of Mobile IP.

Chapter 27, IP Network Multipathing (Overview) provides an overview of the new IP Network Multipathing service that allows both load spreading and failover when you have multiple network interface cards connected to the same IP link (for example, Ethernet).

Chapter 28, Administering Network Multipathing (Task) provides procedures for creating and working with an interface group, configuring test addresses, configuring the hostname file, and configuring the multipathing configuration file.

The Glossary provides definitions of key IP Services terms.

How the System Administration Volumes Are Organized

This section provides a list of the topics that are covered by the other six volumes of the System Administration Guide set.

System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

• “Solaris Administration Tool Roadmap” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

• “Working With the Solaris Management Console Tools (Tasks)” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

• “Managing Users and Groups Topics” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

• “Managing Server and Client Support Topics” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

• “Shutting Down and Booting a System Topics” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

• “Managing Removable Media Topics” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

• “Managing Software Topics” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

• “Managing Devices Topics” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

• “Managing Disks Topics” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

• “Managing File Systems Topics” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

• “Backing Up and Restoring Data Topics” in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

• “Managing Printing Services Topics” in System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

• “Managing Terminals and Modems Topics” in System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

• “Managing System Resources Topics” in System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

• “Managing System Performance Topics” in System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

• “Troubleshooting Solaris Software Topics” in System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

• “Resource Management and Network Service Overview” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

• “Managing Web Cache Servers” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

• “Time Related Services” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

• “Solaris 9 Resource Manager Topics” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

• “Accessing Remote File Systems Topics” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

• “SLP Topics” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

• “Mail Services Topics” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

• “Modem–Related Network Services Topics” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

• “Working With Remote Systems Topics” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

• “Monitoring Network Services Topics” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)

• “Naming and Directory Services (Overview)” in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)

• “The Name Service Switch” in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)

• “Introduction to DNS (Overview)” in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)

• “Network Information Service (NIS): An Overview” in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)

• “Introduction to LDAP (Overview/Reference)” in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)

System Administration Guide: Security Services

• “Security Services Overview” in System Administration Guide: Security Services

• “Using Authentication Services (Tasks)” in System Administration Guide: Security Services

• “Using Secure Shell (Tasks)” in System Administration Guide: Security Services

• “Secure Shell Administration” in System Administration Guide: Security Services

• “Introduction to SEAM” in System Administration Guide: Security Services

• “Managing System Security Topics” in System Administration Guide: Security Services

• “Role-Based Access Control (Overview)” in System Administration Guide: Security Services

• “Using Automated Security Enhancement Tool (Tasks)” in System Administration Guide: Security Services

• “Auditing Topics” in System Administration Guide: Security Services

System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services: (FNS and NIS+)

• “The Name Service Switch” in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+)

• “NIS+: An Introduction” in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+)

• “Federated Naming Service (FNS)” in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+)

• “Transitioning from NIS to NIS+” in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+)

• “Transitioning From NIS+ to LDAP” in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+)

• “Error Messages” in System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+)

Related Books

The following documentation is referred to in this book.

• Krol, Ed. The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog. O' Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1993.

• Stevens, W. Richard. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, The Protocols. Addison Wesley, 1994.

• 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.

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.

Typographic Conventions

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. You must be root to do this.

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	#