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Date:      Mon, 1 Sep 2008 18:49:02 +0530
From:      "Debarshi Ray" <debarshi.ray@gmail.com>
To:        "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD networking and TCP/IP list <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: reading routing table
Message-ID:  <3170f42f0809010619i4d95318x7496e45a442c9654@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48BBE7B2.4050409@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <3170f42f0809010507q6c37a9d5q19649bc261d7656d@mail.gmail.com> <48BBE7B2.4050409@FreeBSD.org>

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> You want 'netstat -rn' to dump them, this is a very common command which
> should be present in a number of online resources on using and administering
> FreeBSD so I am somewhat surprised that you didn't find it.

I know about netstat. I did mention having gone through its
implementation. :-) What I am asking about is related to the
implementation of the 'netstat -rn' functionality, which on some
non-FreeBSD systems is also provided by 'route [show] -n'.

> P.S. Look in the sysctl tree if you need to snapshot the kernel IP
> forwarding tables. You can use kmem, but it is generally frowned upon unless
> you're working from core dumps -- kernels can be built without kmem support,
> or kmem locked down, etc.

Ok, I will have a look. Thanks.

Happy hacking,
Debarshi



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