The IPQoS Administration Guide explains how to provide differentiated services on a network through use of the IPQoS feature in the Solaris™ operating environment. IPQoS enables you to provide different levels of service to network customers and to manage network traffic.
This module assumes that you are a very experienced system administrator with an extensive knowledge of TCP/IP concepts. You might be responsible for, or be familiar with, router administration for your network. You should also be familiar with your site's network topology and corporate policies on network usage, and, possibly, on network security.
The IPQoS Administration Guide contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1, Introducing IPQoS (Overview) provides basic information about the IPQoS feature and the diffserv architecture on which IPQoS is based.
Chapter 2, Planning for an IPQoS-Enabled Network (Tasks) contains tasks for planning the topology of an IPQoS-aware network. The chapter also contains planning tasks for creating a quality-of-service policy for a prospective IPQoS system.
Chapter 3, Creating the IPQoS Configuration File (Tasks) contains tasks for building an IPQoS configuration file that is based on the quality-of-service policy.
Chapter 4, Starting Up and Maintaining IPQoS (Tasks) contains tasks for maintaining and tracking IPQoS.
Chapter 5, Using Flow Accounting and Statistics Gathering (Tasks) contains tasks for configuring the IPQoS flow accounting and displaying IPQoS statistics with the kstat command.
Chapter 6, IPQoS in Depth (Reference) contains in-depth information about the IPQoS modules and the IPQoS configuration file.
The following books discuss the differentiated services architecture:
Ferguson, Paul and Geoff Huston. Quality of Service. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.
Kilkki, Kalevi. Differentiated Services for the Internet. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999.
The docs.sun.comSM 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.
The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.
Table P–1 Typographic Conventions
Typeface or Symbol |
Meaning |
Example |
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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. |
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 |
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C shell prompt | machine_name% |
C shell superuser prompt | machine_name# |
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt | $ |
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt | # |