Installation guide

For more information, see TCP/IP and Data Communications Administration Guide.
Routing Sockets
The Solaris operating environment now conforms to the de facto routing socket
interface as implemented by 4.4 BSD. This interface enables netmask information to
be shared between routing protocol implementations and the kernel. It can also be
used by implementations of CIDR-aware routing protocols.
Although the Solaris software does not deliver a routing daemon that implements
these protocols, TCP/IP administrators are advised to contact the Merit GateD
Consortium (http://www.gated.org/) for information on Gated. Gated is a
program that implements these and other routing protocols and uses the routing
socket interface.
Processor Sets
Processor sets allow a group of processors to be allocated for the exclusive use of one
or more applications. The /usr/sbin/psrset command gives a system
administrator control over the creation, management, and binding of processes into
processor sets.
See the psrset(1M) man page for more information.
autofs
autofs is a file system that automatically mounts file systems as needed and
unmounts them when they are not being used. The new automount daemon is now
fully multithreaded. This enables concurrent servicing of multiple mount requests.
The new functionality makes the service more reliable.
The autofs service now supports browsability of indirect autofs maps. All
mountable entries under an autofs mount point can be visible without the
overhead of mounting them first. By default the /home and /net autofs mount
points will have browsing disabled, but all other indirect mount points will be
browsable. The ability to browse can be administered at the host level with the
automount command and at a name-space level through the autofs maps.
In addition, better on-demand mounting of hierarchically related file systems is
included. Previous releases automounted an entire set of file systems if they were
hierarchically related, even if only one file system was referenced. Now, the file
system that is referenced is dynamically mounted without the other file systems in
the hierarchy.
For more information, see NFS Administration Guide.
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Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) ♦ August 1997