tcpdrop is a free utility to drop an established TCP connection in Sun solaris. It is a port of the tcpdrop utility from FreeBSD and openBSD. tcpdrop doesn’t do what it says on the tin and nothing more but does it very well. tcpdrop works in Solaris 10,9,8
To add a Static Route in Sun Solaris operating system, you can use the route command. This will dynamically update the Kernel IP Routing table. However, when a server is restarted, these routes will be lost. To prevent this from happening, add a startup script S76static-routes with all the route commands for the static route …
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IP packet forwarding is the process of routing packets between network interfaces on one system. A packet arriving on one network interface and addressed to a host on a different network is forwarded to the appropriate interface. While this is a job for the network router, Servers with multiple interfaces connected to different network can …
There is every little chance that one loses or rather forgets the root password of his Sun Solaris servers. In the event, this happens, there is a way out of it. Well the way and infact the only way is to reset the password as there is no way to recover it. Recovering/restting the password …
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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.
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 can be a Security issue as a malicious user can launch a Denial Of Service (DoS) attack on the server.