1. The Solaris Network Environment

Objectives

The following test objectives for Exam CX-310-202 are covered in this chapter:

Control and monitor network interfaces including MAC addresses, IP addresses, network packets, and configure the IPv4 interfaces at boot time.

This chapter describes the files that are used to configure IPv4 network interfaces, how to start and stop these network interfaces, and how to test whether the interfaces are working correctly. It also discusses two methods of changing the system hostname: editing a number of system files and using the sys-unconfig command.

Explain the client/server model; enable/disable server processes.

The network services are started and managed by the Service Management Facility (SMF). ...

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