From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 16 17:36:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A0B1065670 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:36:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brentb@beanfield.com) Received: from smtp0.beanfield.net (smtp0.beanfield.net [66.207.192.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E966E8FC1C for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:36:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brentb@beanfield.com) Received: from brent.local ([66.207.193.249]) by smtp0.beanfield.net (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n6GHYGnP087668; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:34:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brentb@beanfield.com) Message-ID: <4A5F651D.9050205@beanfield.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:36:29 -0400 From: Brent Bloxam Organization: Beanfield Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikos Vassiliadis References: <4A5F3D48.608@beanfield.com> <4A5F61F6.8040906@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <4A5F61F6.8040906@gmx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD & FIBs (setfib) - How to modify? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:36:37 -0000 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Brent Bloxam wrote: >> The documentation on FIBs is pretty slim unless I've been looking in the >> wrong places, all I've seen are a few mentions in errata and release >> notes. setfib(1) doesn't offer much in the way of associated commands, >> and definitely doesn't explain how to actually work with a FIB. I'm >> curious if there's a command to specifically modify a FIB beyond 0, >> besides something like >> >> setfib 1 route add ... > > setfib selects the routing table for locally originated > outgoing packets. Besides locally originated packets, there > are packets arriving from the network and need to be forwarded. > These packets can be classified in a specific routing table > with the aid of ipfw. That's all there is. I can't think > of something else that needs to be thought with regard to > multiple routing tables. > > HTH, Nikos Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. What I'm interested in is if there's a way to deal with *modifying* those other routing tables, besides using setfib as I described (e.g., you want to have a different default gateway). There would be no reason to have multiple routing tables if they're carbon copies of one another.