Introduction

This chapter covers the basics of the Solaris network environment. It does not go into too much detail because Sun provides a separate certification track for Solaris network administrators, but it does provide you with the fundamental information you need to get started managing a Solaris system in a networked environment. The topics discussed here include some fundamental network terminology and information on setting up IPv4 network interfaces, managing network services, and configuring the services that are started automatically at boot time.