Solaris 11 networking enhancements

As of Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 these enhancements are included:

• Network automagic (NWAM): dynamically configure fixed or wireless network depending on discovery and profiles

  

  Network automagic

• sockets no longer use STREAMS
• Solaris can work as a (L2) bridge (IETF TRILL)
• unified handling of different types of network interfaces (project Clearview)
• dladm extended (project Brussels)
• virtual interfaces, IP tunnels and IPMP can now be accessed as generic IP interfaces. They can now be sniffed (e.g. lo0, traffic between zones...) , asssigned as an exlusive stack to a zone...
• use virtual network interfaces (VNIC), virtual switches (etherstubs) and virtual routers, bridges and servers (zones) to siumulate an entire network on a single system (project Crossbow)
• zones can exclusivly own an IP stack without a dedicated physical interface (NIC)
• Link protection: limit ability of NIC to send spoofed packets
• VRRP  (Virtual Router Redundancy protocol)

Earlier Solaris 10 networking enhancements.