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Configuring an Oracle® Solaris 11.4 System as a Router or a Load Balancer

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Updated: November 2020
 
 

Router Overview

A router is a device that is used in a computer network to connect computers and transfer packets of data among themselves. A router can have two or more connections from different networks. The router reads the address information from the incoming data packets to determine their destination. Then, packets are forwarded to the next network by using the information in the router's routing table. This process is repeated until the data packets reach the destination node.


Note -  IP addresses that are used in Oracle Solaris 11 documentation conform to RFC 5737, IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737) and RFC 3849, IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3849). IPv4 addresses used in this documentation are blocks 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24, and 203.0.113.0/24. IPv6 addresses have prefix 2001:DB8::/32.

To show a subnet, the block is divided into multiple subnets by borrowing enough bits from the host to create the required subnet. For example, host address 192.0.2.0 might have subnets 192.0.2.32/27 and 192.0.2.64/27.