IPv6 Administration Guide provides information about configuring and managing the IPv6 framework that is installed in your SolarisTM operating environment. This book assumes that you have already installed the SunOSTM 5.9 operating system. This book also assumes that 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.
The Solaris operating environment runs on two types of hardware, or platforms— SPARC® and x86. 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.
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.
Chapter 1, IPv6 (Overview) provides an overview of the new Internet Protocol that is known as IPv6.
Chapter 2, Administering IPv6 (Tasks) provides procedures for enabling IPv6 at your site. These procedures describe how to configure IPv6 routers, 6to4 routers, and IPv6 addresses for name services. Additional procedures show how to create various types of tunnels between routers, how to run IPv6 additions to commands for diagnostics, and how to display IPv6 name service information.
Chapter 3, IPv6 Files and Commands (Reference) describes the concepts that are associated with the Solaris implementation of IPv6.
Chapter 4, Making the Transition From IPv4 to IPv6 (Reference) provides an overview of the approach and the standardized solutions for making the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 at your site.
The Glossary provides definitions of key IP Services terms.
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 | # |