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System Administration Guide: IP Services Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
1. Planning an IPv4 Addressing Scheme (Tasks)
Determining the Network Hardware
Deciding on an IP Addressing Format for Your Network
Private Addresses and Documentation Prefixes
Designing an IPv4 Addressing Scheme
Designing Your IPv4 Addressing Scheme
Designing Your CIDR IPv4 Addressing Scheme
How IP Addresses Apply to Network Interfaces
Naming Entities on Your Network
Selecting a Name Service and Directory Service
Using NIS or DNS as the Name Service
Using Local Files as the Name Service
Planning for Routers on Your Network
2. Planning an IPv6 Addressing Scheme (Overview)
3. Planning an IPv6 Network (Tasks)
4. Configuring TCP/IP Network Services and IPv4 Addressing (Tasks)
5. Enabling IPv6 on a Network (Tasks)
6. Administering a TCP/IP Network (Tasks)
8. Troubleshooting Network Problems (Tasks)
9. TCP/IP and IPv4 in Depth (Reference)
12. Planning for DHCP Service (Tasks)
13. Configuring the DHCP Service (Tasks)
14. Administering DHCP (Tasks)
15. Configuring and Administering the DHCP Client
16. Troubleshooting DHCP (Reference)
17. DHCP Commands and Files (Reference)
18. IP Security Architecture (Overview)
20. IP Security Architecture (Reference)
21. Internet Key Exchange (Overview)
23. Internet Key Exchange (Reference)
24. IP Filter in Oracle Solaris (Overview)
Part IV Networking Performance
26. Integrated Load Balancer Overview
27. Configuration of Integrated Load Balancer Tasks
28. Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (Overview)
29. VRRP Configuration (Tasks)
30. Implementing Congestion Control
Part V IP Quality of Service (IPQoS)
31. Introducing IPQoS (Overview)
32. Planning for an IPQoS-Enabled Network (Tasks)
33. Creating the IPQoS Configuration File (Tasks)
34. Starting and Maintaining IPQoS (Tasks)
35. Using Flow Accounting and Statistics Gathering (Tasks)
An IPv4 network is defined by a combination of an IPv4 network number plus a network mask, or netmask. An IPv6 network is defined by its site prefix, and, if subnetted, its subnet prefix.
Unless your network plans to be private in perpetuity, your local users most likely need to communicate beyond the local network. Therefore, you must obtain a registered IP number for your network from the appropriate organization before your network can communicate externally. This address becomes the network number for your IPv4 addressing scheme or the site prefix for your IPv6 addressing scheme.
Internet Service Providers provide IP addresses for networks with pricing that is based on different levels of service. Investigate with various ISPs to determine which provides the best service for your network. ISP's typically offer dynamically allocated addresses or static IP addresses to businesses. Some ISPs offer both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
If your site is an ISP, you obtain IP address blocks for your customers from the Internet Registry (IR) for your locale. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is ultimately responsible for delegating registered IP addresses to IRs around the world. Each IR has registration information and templates for the locale that the IR services. For information about the IANA and its IRs, refer to the IANA's IP Address Service page.
Note - Do not arbitrarily assign IP addresses to your network, even if you are not currently attaching the network to external TCP/IP networks. Instead, use private addresses as described in Using Private IPv4 Addresses.