How to disable IP Forwarding in Sun Solaris
If your Sun Solaris server has multiple interfaces and is not intended to route packets between the networks it is connected to, then it is advisable to disable this option. This can be a potential...
View ArticleHow to Disable ICMP Redirect in Sun Solaris for Security
Solaris Operating Environment by default is configured to both accept and send the ICMP Redirect messages. According to RFCs, only a router or a gateway device should send an ICMP Redirect message and...
View ArticleHow to Install and configure OpenSSH in Sun Solaris 9 (x86)
OpenSSH is a free opensource version of the SSH connectivity tools. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks...
View ArticleHow to access SSH without password in Sun Solaris
A Trust relationship can be established for users on multiple servers running OpenSSH to allow a password free ssh session. This is sometime important when you want to run scripts or commands remotely....
View ArticleHow to Disable remote logging in Syslog daemon
Syslog daemon in Solaris by default is enabled for remote logging and will listen on UDP port 514 for syslog messages from remote systems. Unless, the server is acting as a remote logging server, this...
View ArticleHow to Find Chasis Serial Number using sneep in Sun Solaris
sneep (Serial Number in EEPROM) is a cool utility for Solaris that can retreive the Chasis Serial Number (CSN) or the Product Serial Number (PSN). This comes real handy when taking inventory or when...
View ArticleHow to Create LACP aggregates in Solaris 10
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) allows multiple network interfaces to work together to increase bandwidth and redundancy. LACP is simlar to IPMP (IP Multipathing) however IPMP is wasteful with...
View ArticleHow to configure a Simple Solaris IP Multipathing
IP multipathing consists of grouping two identical network cards together and having a live IP address be able to automatically fail over from one card to the other with no loss or degredation of...
View ArticleHow to Configure interface automatically with DHCP in Solaris
Solaris can request IP address and other networking information dynamically with DHCP. To permanently make an interface, for example hme0, obtain its IP address through DHCP, use the touch command to...
View ArticleInstall nagios-plugins-nis-debugsource on openSUSE
This package provides debug sources for package nagios-plugins-nis. Debug sources are useful when developing applications that use this package or when debugging this package. Related posts:Install...
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