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View ArticleEnabling IPFilter on Solaris 10
Incorporating packet filtering software on Solaris 10 was not as easy as it may look like. This complexity is not completely hidden yet as the ipfilter configuration suggests. Let’s try to see how it...
View ArticleInfodoc 71160 : Tuning the sq_max_size Tunable Parameter on Solaris[TM]
Amazing : The default value for sq_max_size is 2 in Solaris version 9 and earlier. The default value for sq_max_size is 10000 in SOlaris 10. View the document
View ArticleThe present & the future of Storage
Two interesting articles about the history, the present & the future of storage. Useful to get the big picture of the storage market without being lost in the details. Titled “Commentary about IP...
View ArticleSolaris 10 networking explained
Great chapters of the upcoming book Solaris internals, “The Magic Revealed” says everything about the new TCP/IP stack only found in Solaris 10 ( & OpenSolaris ) of course… Go to the article T:...
View ArticleDocs : Top 5 things you need to know about NFSv4
A very concise and to-the-point set of slides presented at Lisa 05 conference by a NetApp employee co-author of several NFS specifications. Includes a comparison NFSv3 versus NFSv4. Go to the slides...
View ArticleWorkload Generation for an Enterprise Application
BigAdmin article giving information about SLAMD. “SLAMD focuses only on application testing, with many advanced features dedicated to this activity. This is the ideal tool for the final qualification...
View ArticleSolaris 10 (finally) running on Acer Aspire 9424
With a new job comes a new laptop. I went for Acer Aspire 9424WSMi. It of course comes with Windows Media Center preinstalled. Because I’m gonna work with production Solaris machines, I decided that...
View ArticleThe Management of NFS Performance With Solaris ZFS
A developers.sun.com article that talks about the performance of the NFS distributed file system. Issues appeared with the growth of NFS shares that come from the use of ZFS. Go to the article
View ArticleSolution 206350 : Should auto-negotiation be changed to force the speed and...
With pointers to reference docs of all drivers. Go to that article
View ArticleOpensolaris & wifi Broadcom BCM4312 on Dell Vostro 1710
The steps of the procedure can be found in various places but I like to summarize the information my own way. Starting point : OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101a_rc1b X86 The procedure seems to be valid for...
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