NAME
setfib —
set the default FIB (routing table) for
the calling process
LIBRARY
library “libc”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/socket.h>
int
setfib(int
fib);
DESCRIPTION
Thesetfib()
system call sets the associated fib for all sockets opened subsequent to the
call, to be that of the argument fib. The
fib argument must be greater than or equal to 0 and less
than the current system maximum which may be retrieved by the
net.fibs sysctl. The system maximum is set in the kernel
configuration file with
options
ROUTETABLES=Nor in /boot/loader.conf with
net.fibs="N"where N is an integer. This maximum is capped at 65536 due to the implementation storing the fib number in a 16-bit field in the mbuf(9) 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.
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 of the
SO_SETFIB socket option.
RETURN VALUES
The setfib() function returns the
value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and
the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
The setfib() system call will fail and no
action will be taken and return EINVAL if the
fib argument is greater than the current system
maximum.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
The setfib() system call is a
FreeBSD extension however similar extensions have
been added to many other UNIX style kernels.
HISTORY
The setfib() function appeared in
FreeBSD 7.1.