Preface
System Administration Guide, IP Services is part of a seven-volume set that covers a significant part of the Solaris™ system administration information. This book assumes that you have already installed the SunOS™ 5.9 operating system, and you have set up any networking software that you plan to use. The SunOS 5.9 operating system is part of the Solaris product family, which also includes the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE). The SunOS 5.9 operating system is compliant with AT&T's System V, Release 4 operating system.
Note - The Solaris operating environment runs on two types of hardware, or platforms--SPARC™ and IA. The Solaris operating environment runs on both 64-bit and 32-bit address spaces. The information in this document pertains to both platforms and address spaces unless called out in a special chapter, section, note, bullet, figure, table, example, or code example.
Who Should Use This Book
This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the Solaris 9 release. To use this book, you should have one to two years of UNIX® system administration experience. Attending UNIX system administration training courses might be helpful.
How This Book Is Organized
Chapter 2, TCP/IP (Overview) provides an overview of TCP/IP and its components. This chapter also provides an introduction to the Internet Protocol Suite.
Chapter 3, Planning Your TCP/IP Network (Task) describes how to plan your TCP/IP network.
Chapter 4, Administering TCP/IP (Task) describes how to administer TCP/IP within the Solaris operating environment on your network.
Chapter 5, TCP/IP (Reference) provides reference information about the implementation of TCP/IP on your network.
Chapter 7, About Solaris DHCP (Overview) provides an overview of DHCP and its components. This chapter also describes how DHCP works within the Solaris operating environment on your network.
Chapter 8, Planning for DHCP Service (Task) describes what you need to do before setting up the DHCP service on your network.
Chapter 9, Configuring DHCP Service (Task) describes how you configure the DHCP service on your network. This chapter also provides instructions on how to use the DHCP Manager.
Chapter 10, Administering DHCP (Task) describes tasks that enable you to administer the Solaris DHCP service on your network.
Chapter 11, Troubleshooting DHCP (Reference) provides information to help you solve problems that you might encounter when you configure a DHCP server or client.
Chapter 12, DHCP Files and Commands (Reference) provides reference information about the commands and files that are used by the DHCP service on your network.
Chapter 14, IPv6 (Overview) provides an overview of the new Internet Protocol that is known as IPv6.
Chapter 15, Administering IPv6 (Task) provides procedures for enabling IPv6 and IPv6 routers, configuring IPv6 addresses for DNS, NIS, and NIS+, creating tunnels between routers, running IPv6 additions to commands for diagnostics, and displaying IPv6 name service information.
Chapter 16, IPv6 Files and Commands (Reference) describes the concepts that are associated with the Solaris implementation of IPv6.
Chapter 17, Transitioning From IPv4 to IPv6 (Reference) provides an overview of the approach and the standardized solutions to transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6.
Chapter 19, IPsec (Overview) provides an overview of the new IP Security Architecture that provides protection for IP datagrams.
Chapter 20, Administering IPsec (Task) provides procedures for implementing IPsec on your network.
Chapter 21, Internet Key Exchange provides an overview and procedures for implementing IKE for use with IPsec.
Chapter 23, Mobile IP (Overview) provides an overview of the new Mobile IP service that enables the transfer of information to and from mobile computers, such as laptops and wireless communications.
Chapter 24, Administering Mobile IP (Task) provides procedures for modifying, adding, deleting, and displaying parameters in the Mobile IP configuration file. This chapter also shows you how to display mobility agent status.
Chapter 25, Mobile IP Files and Commands (Reference) describes the components that are provided with the Solaris implementation of Mobile IP.
Chapter 27, IP Network Multipathing (Overview) provides an overview of the new IP Network Multipathing service that allows both load spreading and failover when you have multiple network interface cards connected to the same IP link (for example, Ethernet).
Chapter 28, Administering Network Multipathing (Task) provides procedures for creating and working with an interface group, configuring test addresses, configuring the hostname file, and configuring the multipathing configuration file.
The Glossary provides definitions of key IP Services terms.
How the System Administration Volumes Are Organized
This section provides a list of the topics that are covered by the other six volumes of the System Administration Guide set.
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
"Solaris Administration Tool Roadmap" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
"Working With the Solaris Management Console Tools (Tasks)" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
"Managing Users and Groups Topics" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
"Managing Server and Client Support Topics" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
"Shutting Down and Booting a System Topics" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
"Managing Removable Media Topics" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
"Managing Software Topics" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
"Managing Devices Topics" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
"Managing Disks Topics" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
"Managing File Systems Topics" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
"Backing Up and Restoring Data Topics" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration