zones

Updating Solaris 11 zones behind a proxy

albertw / August 14, 2012

I’ve forgotten this several times now so it’s time I wrote a short post to help me remember in future! In Solaris 11 we use the Image Packaging System to maintain the software on the system. This is written in python and uses libcurl and for non zoned systems setting the http_proxy is sufficient to […]

computing, Solaris

Using NAT with Zones

albertw / March 22, 2011

This post originally appeared at http://blogs.sun.com/ford/entry/using_nat_in_the_global Since sun.com is going away soon (thank a bunch Oracle…) I’m going to mirror it here because I found it useful. Tuesday September 27, 2005 Using NAT in the Global Zone There have been requests to use IPFilter on Solaris 10 as a tool to allow use of networking