Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 20:47:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r250831 - head/lib/libc/sys Message-ID: <201305202047.r4KKledk043713@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: julian Date: Mon May 20 20:47:40 2013 New Revision: 250831 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/250831 Log: Update the setfib man page to reflect recent changes. Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/setfib.2 Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/setfib.2 ============================================================================== --- head/lib/libc/sys/setfib.2 Mon May 20 20:32:58 2013 (r250830) +++ head/lib/libc/sys/setfib.2 Mon May 20 20:47:40 2013 (r250831) @@ -64,10 +64,13 @@ with where .Em N is an integer. -However, this maximum is capped at 16 due to the implementation storing -the fib number in a 4-bit field in +This maximum is capped at 65536 due to the implementation storing +the fib number in a 16-bit field in the .Xr mbuf 9 -flags. +packet header, however it is not suggested that one use such a large number +as memory is allocated for every FIB regardless of whether it is used, and +there are places where all FIBs are iterated over. +.Pp The default fib of the process will be applied to all protocol families that support multiple fibs, and ignored by those that do not. The default fib for a process may be overridden for a socket with the use
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