Welcome to System Administration Guide: IP Services for the Solaris Express, Developer Edition 2/07. This book is part of a nine-volume set that covers a significant part of the Solaris system administration information. This book assumes that you have already installed the Solaris operating system (Solaris OS). You should be ready to configure your network or ready to configure any networking software that is required on your network. The Solaris OS is part of the Solaris product family, which also includes the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE). Solaris OS is compliant with AT&T's System V, Release 4 operating system.&platformnote; This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering systems that run the Solaris OS release, which are configured in a network. To use this book, you should have at least two years of UNIX system administration experience. Attending UNIX system administration training courses might be helpful. &sagset;The following trade books are referred to in this book.Stevens, W. Richard. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, The Protocols. Addison Wesley, 1994. Hunt Craig.TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition. O'Reilly, 2002. Perkins, Charles E. Mobile IP Design Principles and Practices. Massachusetts, 1998, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Solomon, James D. Mobile IP: The Internet Unplugged. New Jersey, 1998, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Ferguson, Paul and Geoff Huston. Quality of Service. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998. Kilkki, Kalevi. Differentiated Services for the Internet. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999. Third party URLs are referenced in this document and provide additional, related information.Sun is not responsible for the availability of third-party Web sites mentioned in this document. Sun does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials that are available on or through such sites or resources. Sun will not be responsible or liable for any actual or alleged damage or loss caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services that are available on or through such sites or resources. Solaris IP Filter is derived from open source IP Filter software. To view license terms, attribution, and copyright statements for IP Filter, the default path is /usr/lib/ipf/IPFILTER.LICENCE. If Solaris OS has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the given path to access the file at the installed location. &sundocs;&typeconv;