Administering TCP/IP Networks, IPMP, and IP Tunnels in Oracle^® Solaris 11.3

Administering TCP/IP Networks

This chapter describes how to administer the TCP/IP protocol on systems that have Oracle Solaris installed. The tasks that are in this chapter assume that you have an operational TCP/IP network at your site, either IPv4-only or a dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 network.

For information about planning your network deployment, see Planning for Network Deployment in Oracle Solaris 11.3.

For network configuration tasks, see Configuring and Managing Network Components in Oracle Solaris 11.3.

For information about some of the commands that are described in this chapter to observe network traffic usage at the different layers of the Oracle Solaris network protocol stack, see Chapter 2, Using Observability Tools to Monitor Network Traffic Usage in Troubleshooting Network Administration Issues in Oracle Solaris 11.3.

This chapter contains the following topics:

• Customizing TCP/IP Properties

• Enabling Packet Forwarding Globally

• Administering Default Address Selection

• Administering Transport Layer Services

• Monitoring Network Status With the netstat Command

• Performing TCP and UDP Administration With the netcat Utility

• Administering and Logging Network Status Displays

• Probing Remote Hosts With the ping Command

• Displaying Routing Information With the traceroute Command

• About the My Traceroute Utility

• Analyzing Network Traffic With TShark and Wireshark

• Monitoring Packet Transfers With the snoop Command

• Observing Network Traffic With the ipstat and tcpstat Commands