Nowadays, virtualized systems are growing and spreading very fast, and usually, the virtual machines or virtual environments (zones, for example) have full physical network access. Unfortunately, this granted network access can compromise the system and the entire network if malicious packets originate from these virtual environments. It is at this point that Oracle Solaris 11 Link Protection can prevent any damage from being caused by these harmful packets that come from virtual environments.

Oracle Solaris 11 has introduced Link Protection to try and prevent several types of spoof attacks, such as IP spoofing (when someone masquerades the IP address from his/her system with a forged IP address in order to pretend being another system, which is very usual during a denial-of-service attack), DHCP spoofing (when a rogue DHCP server is attached in the network in order to provide false information such as the gateway address, causing all...