From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 16 19:46:45 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 C08CD106568B for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:46:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7A98FC12 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:46:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EE67E818 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:46:44 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:46:43 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-BETA1; KDE/4.2.4; i386; ; ) References: <4A5F3D48.608@beanfield.com> <200907161000.18544.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <4A5F6BA4.9050707@beanfield.com> In-Reply-To: <4A5F6BA4.9050707@beanfield.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907161146.43712.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> 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 19:46:46 -0000 On Thursday 16 July 2009 10:04:20 Brent Bloxam wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > I guess the main question here is "what is 10?" or what is an FIB?. > > How does > > > one create such an FIB id (which I can't find in docs either). For > > example, on my system if I do: > > % setfib 2 fetch http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html > > setfib: 2: invalid FIB (max 0) > > > > I would expect to see some info in > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-routing > >.html > > > > Naturally there's some info here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forwarding_information_base > > > > but that doesn't have any practical information on how to create one. > > I'm not sure if you're curious or trying to clarify on my question, but > I'm past the point of creating and was interested in modifying. Yep, was trying to clarify your question, which obviously I didn't do very well. :) -- Mel