Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:23:02 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> To: Brent Bloxam <brentb@beanfield.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD & FIBs (setfib) - How to modify? Message-ID: <4A5F61F6.8040906@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <4A5F3D48.608@beanfield.com> References: <4A5F3D48.608@beanfield.com>
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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
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