IPsec Policy Bypass Option While Running the ping Command

This networking enhancement is new in the Solaris Express 6/06 release.

In this release, the -b option has been added to the ping command. This option enables administrators to bypass global IPsec policy for a specified ping connection.

The IPsec policy bypass option enables isolating network issues from IPsec policy issues without changing or disabling global IPsec rules. Because, this option only affects the specified ping socket, encrypted and clear text pings can be run simultaneously. Only superuser or a user granted suitable privileges can use the IPsec policy bypass option.

For more information, see the ping(1M) man page.