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Preface

Part I TCP/IP Administration

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

6.  Configuring IP Tunnels

7.  Troubleshooting Network Problems

8.  IPv4 Reference

Network Configuration Files

inetd Internet Services Daemon

The name-service/switch SMF Service

How Name Services Affect Network Databases

Routing Protocols in Oracle Solaris

Routing Information Protocol (RIP)

ICMP Router Discovery (RDISC) Protocol

Tables of Routing Protocols in Oracle Solaris

9.  IPv6 Reference

Part II DHCP

10.  About DHCP (Overview)

11.  Administering the ISC DHCP Service

12.  Configuring and Administering the DHCP Client

13.  DHCP Commands and Files (Reference)

Part III IP Security

14.  IP Security Architecture (Overview)

15.  Configuring IPsec (Tasks)

16.  IP Security Architecture (Reference)

17.  Internet Key Exchange (Overview)

18.  Configuring IKE (Tasks)

19.  Internet Key Exchange (Reference)

20.  IP Filter in Oracle Solaris (Overview)

21.  IP Filter (Tasks)

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)

32.  IPQoS in Detail (Reference)

Glossary

Index

Routing Protocols in Oracle Solaris

This section describes two routing protocols supported in Oracle Solaris: Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and ICMP Router Discovery (RDISC). RIP and RDISC are both standard TCP/IP protocols. For complete lists of routing protocols available in Oracle Solaris, refer to Table 8-1 and Table 8-2.

Routing Information Protocol (RIP)

RIP is implemented by in.routed, the routing daemon, which automatically starts when the system boots. When run on a router with the s option specified, in.routed fills the kernel routing table with a route to every reachable network and advertises “reachability” through all network interfaces.

When run on a host with the q option specified, in.routed extracts routing information but does not advertise reachability. On hosts, routing information can be extracted in two ways:

ICMP Router Discovery (RDISC) Protocol

Hosts use RDISC to obtain routing information from routers. Thus, when hosts are running RDISC, routers must also run another protocol, such as RIP, in order to exchange router information.

RDISC is implemented by in.routed, which should run on both routers and hosts. On hosts, in.routed uses RDISC to discover default routes from routers that advertise themselves through RDISC. On routers, in.routed uses RDISC to advertise default routes to hosts on directly-connected networks. See the in.routed(1M) man page and the gateways(4) man page.

Tables of Routing Protocols in Oracle Solaris

The following table lists all the routing protocols that are supported in Oracle Solaris

Table 8-1 Oracle Solaris Routing Protocols

Protocol
Associated Daemon
Description
For Instructions
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
in.routed
IGP that routes IPv4 packets and maintains a routing table
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Router Discovery
in.routed
Used by hosts to discover the presence of a router on the network
Routing Information Protocol, next generation (RIPng) Protocol
in.ripngd
IGP that routes IPv6 packets and maintains a routing table
Neighbor Discovery (ND) Protocol
in.ndpd
Advertises the presence of an IPv6 router and discovers the presence of IPv6 hosts on a network

The following table lists the Quagga protocols that are also supported in Oracle Solaris.

Table 8-2 OpenSolaris Quagga Protocols

Protocol
Daemon
Description
RIP protocol
ripd
IPv4 distance vectoring IGP that routes IPv4 packets and advertises its routing table to neighbors.
RIPng
ripngd
IPv6 distance vectoring IGP. Routes IPv6 packets and maintains a routing table.
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol
ospfd
IPv4 link state IGP for packet routing and high availability networking
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
bgpd
IPv4 and IPv6 EGP for routing across administrative domains.