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Oracle Solaris Administration: IP Services Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library |
1. Planning the Network Deployment
2. Considerations When Using IPv6 Addresses
3. Configuring an IPv4 Network
4. Enabling IPv6 on the Network
5. Administering a TCP/IP Network
7. Troubleshooting Network Problems
11. Administering the ISC DHCP Service
12. Configuring and Administering the DHCP Client
13. DHCP Commands and Files (Reference)
14. IP Security Architecture (Overview)
16. IP Security Architecture (Reference)
17. Internet Key Exchange (Overview)
19. Internet Key Exchange (Reference)
20. IP Filter in Oracle Solaris (Overview)
Information Sources for Open Source IP Filter
Guidelines for Using IP Filter
Using IP Filter Configuration Files
Using IP Filter's Packet Filtering Feature
Configuring Packet Filtering Rules
Using IP Filter's Address Pools Feature
Part IV Networking Performance
22. Integrated Load Balancer Overview
23. Configuration of Integrated Load Balancer (Tasks)
24. Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (Overview)
25. VRRP Configuration (Tasks)
26. Implementing Congestion Control
Part V IP Quality of Service (IPQoS)
27. Introducing IPQoS (Overview)
28. Planning for an IPQoS-Enabled Network (Tasks)
29. Creating the IPQoS Configuration File (Tasks)
30. Starting and Maintaining IPQoS (Tasks)
31. Using Flow Accounting and Statistics Gathering (Tasks)
Beginning with the Solaris 6/06 release, support for IPv6 is available with IP Filter. IPv6 packet filtering can filter based on the source/destination IPv6 address, pools containing IPv6 addresses, and IPv6 extension headers.
IPv6 is similar to IPv4 in many ways. However, header and packet size differ between the two versions of IP, which is an important consideration for IP Filter. IPv6 packets known as jumbograms contain a datagram longer than 65,535 bytes. IP Filter does not support IPv6 jumbograms. To learn more about other IPv6 features, see Major Features of IPv6.
Note - For more information on jumbograms, refer to the document IPv6 Jumbograms, RFC 2675 from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2675.txt]
IP Filter tasks associated with IPv6 do not differ substantially from IPv4. The most notable difference is the use of the -6 option with certain commands. Both the ipf command and the ipfstat command include the -6 option for use with IPv6 packet filtering. Use the -6 option with the ipf command to load and flush IPv6 packet filtering rules. To display IPv6 statistics, use the -6 option with the ipfstat command. The ipmon and ippool commands also support IPv6, although there is no associated option for IPv6 support. The ipmon command has been enhanced to accommodate the logging of IPv6 packets. The ippool command supports the pools with IPv6 addresses. You can create pools of only IPv4 or IPv6 addresses, or a pool containing both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses within the same pool.
You can use the ipf6.conf file to create packet filtering rule sets for IPv6. By default, the ipf6.conf configuration file is included in the /etc/ipf directory. As with the other filtering configuration files, the ipf6.conf file loads automatically during the boot process when it is stored in the /etc/ipf directory. You can also create and store an IPv6 configuration file in another location and load the file manually.
Once packet filtering rules for IPv6 have been set up, activate IPv6 packet filtering capabilities by creating the interface.
For more information on IPv6, see Chapter 3, Introducing IPv6 (Overview). For tasks associated with IP Filter, see Chapter 21, IP Filter (Tasks).
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