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Sam Leffler
c95ae8c852 Makefile to record the technique by which the .uu files are generated
from the Intel-distributed .fw files
2009-05-09 18:54:18 +00:00
Sam Leffler
82431678fc update to v3.1 2009-05-09 18:53:07 +00:00
Marko Zec
093f25f8c8 In preparation for turning on options VIMAGE in next commits,
rearrange / replace / adjust several INIT_VNET_* initializer
macros, all of which currently resolve to whitespace.

Reviewed by:	bz (an older version of the patch)
Approved by:	julian (mentor)
2009-04-26 22:06:42 +00:00
Kip Macy
279aa3d419 Change if_output to take a struct route as its fourth argument in order
to allow passing a cached struct llentry * down to L2

Reviewed by:	rwatson
2009-04-16 20:30:28 +00:00
Robert Watson
e27b0c8775 Update stats in struct icmpstat and icmp6stat using four new
macros: ICMPSTAT_ADD(), ICMPSTAT_INC(), ICMP6STAT_ADD(), and
ICMP6STAT_INC(), rather than directly manipulating the fields
of these structures across the kernel.  This will make it
easier to change the implementation of these statistics,
such as using per-CPU versions of the data structures.

In on case, icmp6stat members are manipulated indirectly, by
icmp6_errcount(), and this will require further work to fix
for per-CPU stats.

MFC after:	3 days
2009-04-12 13:22:33 +00:00
Robert Watson
026decb8f3 Update stats in struct udpstat using two new macros, UDPSTAT_ADD()
and UDPSTAT_INC(), rather than directly manipulating the fields
across the kernel.  This will make it easier to change the
implementation of these statistics, such as using per-CPU versions
of the data structures.

MFC after:	3 days
2009-04-12 11:42:40 +00:00
Robert Watson
86425c62a0 Update stats in struct ipstat using four new macros, IPSTAT_ADD(),
IPSTAT_INC(), IPSTAT_SUB(), and IPSTAT_DEC(), rather than directly
manipulating the fields across the kernel.  This will make it easier
to change the implementation of these statistics, such as using
per-CPU versions of the data structures.

MFC after:	3 days
2009-04-11 23:35:20 +00:00
Robert Watson
78b5071407 Update stats in struct tcpstat using two new macros, TCPSTAT_ADD() and
TCPSTAT_INC(), rather than directly manipulating the fields across the
kernel.  This will make it easier to change the implementation of
these statistics, such as using per-CPU versions of the data structures.

MFC after:	3 days
2009-04-11 22:07:19 +00:00
Weongyo Jeong
dc60165b73 Add uath(4) wireless USB driver for Atheros AR5005UG and AR5005UX
chipsets.

Reviewed by:	sam
2009-04-04 11:23:00 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
33553d6e99 For all files including net/vnet.h directly include opt_route.h and
net/route.h.

Remove the hidden include of opt_route.h and net/route.h from net/vnet.h.

We need to make sure that both opt_route.h and net/route.h are included
before net/vnet.h because of the way MRT figures out the number of FIBs
from the kernel option. If we do not, we end up with the default number
of 1 when including net/vnet.h and array sizes are wrong.

This does not change the list of files which depend on opt_route.h
but we can identify them now more easily.
2009-02-27 14:12:05 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
e4c38888b7 Move the include of vinet.h further up before the ipfilter includes. 2009-02-27 13:29:18 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
61cab5d638 Shuffle the vimage.h includes or add where missing. 2009-02-27 13:22:26 +00:00
Roman Divacky
af83f5d77c Change the functions to ANSI in those cases where it breaks promotion
to int rule. See ISO C Standard: SS6.7.5.3:15.

Approved by:	kib (mentor)
Reviewed by:	warner
Tested by:	silence on -current
2009-02-24 18:09:31 +00:00
Ed Schouten
55b043392b Revert my previous two changes.
Even though the code seems to be FreeBSD kernel code, it isn't compiled
on FreeBSD. I could have known this, because I was a little amazed that
I couldn't find a prototype of pfopen()/pfclose() somewhere else,
because it isn't marked as static.

Apart from that, removing these functions wouldn't have been harmful
anyway, because there are some other strange things about them (the
implementation isn't consistent with the prototype at the top). Still,
it's better to leave it, because it makes merging code back to older
branches a little harder.

Requested by:	mlaier
2009-01-25 16:52:41 +00:00
Ed Schouten
014bf1f6e5 Remove pfopen() and pfclose() entirely.
It turns out I was patching functions that weren't used by pf(4) anyway.
They still seem to use `struct proc *' instead of `struct thread *'.
They weren't listed in pf_cdevsw.
2009-01-25 14:39:15 +00:00
Ed Schouten
1f895245a0 Remove unneeded checking for invalid minor numbers from pf(4).
Because it is not possible to access the pf(4) character device through
any other device node as the one in devfs, there is no need to check for
unknown device minor numbers.

Approved by:	mlaier
2009-01-25 14:00:00 +00:00
Jung-uk Kim
d8b677e50d Change __FreeBSD_version to prepare for merging r184102. 2009-01-21 20:44:42 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
a08812c2f9 Check for ipprotosw.h more precisely.
It hasn't been needed for more than 5 years, since r120386.

MFC after:	4 weeks
2008-12-23 16:49:07 +00:00
Sam Leffler
41fe50f5de MFH @ 186335 2008-12-20 01:29:19 +00:00
Qing Li
6e6b3f7cbc This main goals of this project are:
1. separating L2 tables (ARP, NDP) from the L3 routing tables
2. removing as much locking dependencies among these layers as
   possible to allow for some parallelism in the search operations
3. simplify the logic in the routing code,

The most notable end result is the obsolescent of the route
cloning (RTF_CLONING) concept, which translated into code reduction
in both IPv4 ARP and IPv6 NDP related modules, and size reduction in
struct rtentry{}. The change in design obsoletes the semantics of
RTF_CLONING, RTF_WASCLONE and RTF_LLINFO routing flags. The userland
applications such as "arp" and "ndp" have been modified to reflect
those changes. The output from "netstat -r" shows only the routing
entries.

Quite a few developers have contributed to this project in the
past: Glebius Smirnoff, Luigi Rizzo, Alessandro Cerri, and
Andre Oppermann. And most recently:

- Kip Macy revised the locking code completely, thus completing
  the last piece of the puzzle, Kip has also been conducting
  active functional testing
- Sam Leffler has helped me improving/refactoring the code, and
  provided valuable reviews
- Julian Elischer setup the perforce tree for me and has helped
  me maintaining that branch before the svn conversion
2008-12-15 06:10:57 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
52f644a9e2 Like for tcp_subr.c in r186057 make the MD5 context a function local
variable in this copy of the code[1].

While here prefix the variables with 'pf_' to avoid file static global
variables with colliding names that are or will be virtualized.

Discussed with:	rwatson, silby [1]
2008-12-13 22:04:52 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
1b193af610 Second round of putting global variables, which were virtualized
but formerly missed under VIMAGE_GLOBAL.

Put the extern declarations of the  virtualized globals
under VIMAGE_GLOBAL as the globals themsevles are already.
This will help by the time when we are going to remove the globals
entirely.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2008-12-13 19:13:03 +00:00
Sam Leffler
d212022417 Merge WIP from p4:
o recognize ixp435 cpu
o change memory layout for for ixp4xx to not assume memory is aliases
  to 0x10000000 (Cambria/ixp435 memory starts at zero)
o handle 64 irqs for ixp435
o dual EHCI USB 2.0 controller integral to ixp435
o overhaul NPE code for ixp435 and better MAC+MII naming
o updated NPE firmware (including NPE-A image for ixp435/ixp465)
o Gateworks Cambria board support:
  - IDE compact flash
  - MCU
  - front panel LED on i2c bus
  - Octal LED latch

Sanity-tested with NFS-root on Avila and Cambria boards.  Requires
pending boot2 mods for CF-boot on Cambria.
2008-12-13 01:21:37 +00:00
Marko Zec
385195c062 Conditionally compile out V_ globals while instantiating the appropriate
container structures, depending on VIMAGE_GLOBALS compile time option.

Make VIMAGE_GLOBALS a new compile-time option, which by default will not
be defined, resulting in instatiations of global variables selected for
V_irtualization (enclosed in #ifdef VIMAGE_GLOBALS blocks) to be
effectively compiled out.  Instantiate new global container structures
to hold V_irtualized variables: vnet_net_0, vnet_inet_0, vnet_inet6_0,
vnet_ipsec_0, vnet_netgraph_0, and vnet_gif_0.

Update the VSYM() macro so that depending on VIMAGE_GLOBALS the V_
macros resolve either to the original globals, or to fields inside
container structures, i.e. effectively

#ifdef VIMAGE_GLOBALS
#define V_rt_tables rt_tables
#else
#define V_rt_tables vnet_net_0._rt_tables
#endif

Update SYSCTL_V_*() macros to operate either on globals or on fields
inside container structs.

Extend the internal kldsym() lookups with the ability to resolve
selected fields inside the virtualization container structs.  This
applies only to the fields which are explicitly registered for kldsym()
visibility via VNET_MOD_DECLARE() and vnet_mod_register(), currently
this is done only in sys/net/if.c.

Fix a few broken instances of MODULE_GLOBAL() macro use in SCTP code,
and modify the MODULE_GLOBAL() macro to resolve to V_ macros, which in
turn result in proper code being generated depending on VIMAGE_GLOBALS.

De-virtualize local static variables in sys/contrib/pf/net/pf_subr.c
which were prematurely V_irtualized by automated V_ prepending scripts
during earlier merging steps.  PF virtualization will be done
separately, most probably after next PF import.

Convert a few variable initializations at instantiation to
initialization in init functions, most notably in ipfw.  Also convert
TUNABLE_INT() initializers for V_ variables to TUNABLE_FETCH_INT() in
initializer functions.

Discussed at:	devsummit Strassburg
Reviewed by:	bz, julian
Approved by:	julian (mentor)
Obtained from:	//depot/projects/vimage-commit2/...
X-MFC after:	never
Sponsored by:	NLnet Foundation, The FreeBSD Foundation
2008-12-10 23:12:39 +00:00
Kip Macy
3120b9d428 - convert radix node head lock from mutex to rwlock
- make radix node head lock not recursive
 - fix LOR in rtexpunge
 - fix LOR in rtredirect

Reviewed by:	sam
2008-12-07 21:15:43 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
4b79449e2f Rather than using hidden includes (with cicular dependencies),
directly include only the header files needed. This reduces the
unneeded spamming of various headers into lots of files.

For now, this leaves us with very few modules including vnet.h
and thus needing to depend on opt_route.h.

Reviewed by:	brooks, gnn, des, zec, imp
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2008-12-02 21:37:28 +00:00
Sam Leffler
3364462355 Switch to ath hal source code. Note this removes the ath_hal
module; the ath module now brings in the hal support.  Kernel
config files are almost backwards compatible; supplying

device ath_hal

gives you the same chip support that the binary hal did but you
must also include

options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416

to enable the extended format descriptors used by 11n parts.
It is now possible to control the chip support included in a
build by specifying exactly which chips are to be supported
in the config file; consult ath_hal(4) for information.
2008-12-01 16:53:01 +00:00
Marko Zec
f02493cbbd Unhide declarations of network stack virtualization structs from
underneath #ifdef VIMAGE blocks.

This change introduces some churn in #include ordering and nesting
throughout the network stack and drivers but is not expected to cause
any additional issues.

In the next step this will allow us to instantiate the virtualization
container structures and switch from using global variables to their
"containerized" counterparts.

Reviewed by:	bz, julian
Approved by:	julian (mentor)
Obtained from:	//depot/projects/vimage-commit2/...
X-MFC after:	never
Sponsored by:	NLnet Foundation, The FreeBSD Foundation
2008-11-28 23:30:51 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
e11e3f187d Fix a number of style issues in the MALLOC / FREE commit. I've tried to
be careful not to fix anything that was already broken; the NFSv4 code is
particularly bad in this respect.
2008-10-23 20:26:15 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
1ede983cc9 Retire the MALLOC and FREE macros. They are an abomination unto style(9).
MFC after:	3 months
2008-10-23 15:53:51 +00:00
Jung-uk Kim
29462bea1e Turn off CPU frequency change notifiers when the TSC is P-state invariant
or it is forced by setting 'kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc' tunable
to non-zero.
2008-10-21 00:38:00 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
86d02c5c63 Cache so_cred as inp_cred in the inpcb.
This means that inp_cred is always there, even after the socket
has gone away. It also means that it is constant for the lifetime
of the inp.
Both facts lead to simpler code and possibly less locking.

Suggested by:	rwatson
Reviewed by:	rwatson
MFC after:	6 weeks
X-MFC Note:	use a inp_pspare for inp_cred
2008-10-04 15:06:34 +00:00
Marko Zec
8b615593fc Step 1.5 of importing the network stack virtualization infrastructure
from the vimage project, as per plan established at devsummit 08/08:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Image/Notes200808DevSummit

Introduce INIT_VNET_*() initializer macros, VNET_FOREACH() iterator
macros, and CURVNET_SET() context setting macros, all currently
resolving to NOPs.

Prepare for virtualization of selected SYSCTL objects by introducing a
family of SYSCTL_V_*() macros, currently resolving to their global
counterparts, i.e. SYSCTL_V_INT() == SYSCTL_INT().

Move selected #defines from sys/sys/vimage.h to newly introduced header
files specific to virtualized subsystems (sys/net/vnet.h,
sys/netinet/vinet.h etc.).

All the changes are verified to have zero functional impact at this
point in time by doing MD5 comparision between pre- and post-change
object files(*).

(*) netipsec/keysock.c did not validate depending on compile time options.

Implemented by:	julian, bz, brooks, zec
Reviewed by:	julian, bz, brooks, kris, rwatson, ...
Approved by:	julian (mentor)
Obtained from:	//depot/projects/vimage-commit2/...
X-MFC after:	never
Sponsored by:	NLnet Foundation, The FreeBSD Foundation
2008-10-02 15:37:58 +00:00
Ed Schouten
6bfa9a2d66 Replace all calls to minor() with dev2unit().
After I removed all the unit2minor()/minor2unit() calls from the kernel
yesterday, I realised calling minor() everywhere is quite confusing.
Character devices now only have the ability to store a unit number, not
a minor number. Remove the confusion by using dev2unit() everywhere.

This commit could also be considered as a bug fix. A lot of drivers call
minor(), while they should actually be calling dev2unit(). In -CURRENT
this isn't a problem, but it turns out we never had any problem reports
related to that issue in the past. I suspect not many people connect
more than 256 pieces of the same hardware.

Reviewed by:	kib
2008-09-27 08:51:18 +00:00
Rui Paulo
5df8ba31f0 Merge ath again (addition of wisoc files). 2008-09-05 22:24:31 +00:00
Rui Paulo
fa9a79b4fd Merge fix for P4 expansion from vendor branch. 2008-09-05 13:18:06 +00:00
Rui Paulo
66fe9e3277 Merge ath_hal 0.10.5.10 to head.
Approved by:	sam
2008-08-28 00:22:59 +00:00
Rui Paulo
e82cbe00b8 Flatten the vendor-sys/ath tree for future imports. 2008-08-27 19:52:48 +00:00
Rui Paulo
c719bf13e9 Workaround the detect-merge-conflicts.sh script and 's/^======$/&='. 2008-08-27 19:47:48 +00:00
Julian Elischer
28a2d0c1e1 I think we can remove the conditionals for freebsd 2.0 now 2008-08-25 07:33:17 +00:00
Bjoern A. Zeeb
603724d3ab Commit step 1 of the vimage project, (network stack)
virtualization work done by Marko Zec (zec@).

This is the first in a series of commits over the course
of the next few weeks.

Mark all uses of global variables to be virtualized
with a V_ prefix.
Use macros to map them back to their global names for
now, so this is a NOP change only.

We hope to have caught at least 85-90% of what is needed
so we do not invalidate a lot of outstanding patches again.

Obtained from:	//depot/projects/vimage-commit2/...
Reviewed by:	brooks, des, ed, mav, julian,
		jamie, kris, rwatson, zec, ...
		(various people I forgot, different versions)
		md5 (with a bit of help)
Sponsored by:	NLnet Foundation, The FreeBSD Foundation
X-MFC after:	never
V_Commit_Message_Reviewed_By:	more people than the patch
2008-08-17 23:27:27 +00:00
Max Laier
9f21c07f14 Merge state reuse for tcp.
PR:		kern/125261
Obtained from:	OpenBSD
MFC after:	1 week
2008-08-04 14:42:09 +00:00
Max Laier
898dc49201 Flatten out dist and all "live" tag directories. 2008-08-04 13:30:44 +00:00
Darren Reed
14fbef0c79 2020447 IPFilter's NAT can undo name server random port selection
(fix output port range, was a random number in [0,max-min]
	 (byteswapped on litle endian), instead of [min,max])

Submitted by:	darrenr
2008-07-26 19:46:00 +00:00
Julian Elischer
7e4e65ffb3 Fix spelling error in comment 2008-07-24 19:05:58 +00:00
Darren Reed
52c7653383 2020447 IPFilter's NAT can undo name server random port selection
Approved by:	darrenr
MFC after:	1 week
Security:	CERT VU#521769
2008-07-24 12:35:05 +00:00
John Baldwin
2c6298572e Remove the oltr(4) driver. No one responded to calls for testing on
current@ and stable@ for the locking patches.  The driver can always be
revived if someone tests it.

This driver also sleeps in its if_init routine, so it likely doesn't really
work at all anyway in modern releases.
2008-07-04 18:58:53 +00:00
John Baldwin
9732d2c92a Make oltr(4) MPSAFE:
- Add a mutex to the softc and use it to protect the softc and device
  hardware.
- Setup interrupt handler after interface attach.
- Retire 'unit' from softc and use if_printf() instead.
- Don't frob IFF_UP in the driver.
- Use callout_() rather than timeout() and untimeout().
2008-07-04 18:27:14 +00:00
Max Laier
b18b4dabe6 Fix range check for rtable id. 2008-06-05 19:30:20 +00:00
Julian Elischer
8b07e49a00 Add code to allow the system to handle multiple routing tables.
This particular implementation is designed to be fully backwards compatible
and to be MFC-able to 7.x (and 6.x)

Currently the only protocol that can make use of the multiple tables is IPv4
Similar functionality exists in OpenBSD and Linux.

From my notes:

-----

  One thing where FreeBSD has been falling behind, and which by chance I
  have some time to work on is "policy based routing", which allows
  different
  packet streams to be routed by more than just the destination address.

  Constraints:
  ------------

  I want to make some form of this available in the 6.x tree
  (and by extension 7.x) , but FreeBSD in general needs it so I might as
  well do it in -current and back port the portions I need.

  One of the ways that this can be done is to have the ability to
  instantiate multiple kernel routing tables (which I will now
  refer to as "Forwarding Information Bases" or "FIBs" for political
  correctness reasons). Which FIB a particular packet uses to make
  the next hop decision can be decided by a number of mechanisms.
  The policies these mechanisms implement are the "Policies" referred
  to in "Policy based routing".

  One of the constraints I have if I try to back port this work to
  6.x is that it must be implemented as a EXTENSION to the existing
  ABIs in 6.x so that third party applications do not need to be
  recompiled in timespan of the branch.

  This first version will not have some of the bells and whistles that
  will come with later versions. It will, for example, be limited to 16
  tables in the first commit.
  Implementation method, Compatible version. (part 1)
  -------------------------------
  For this reason I have implemented a "sufficient subset" of a
  multiple routing table solution in Perforce, and back-ported it
  to 6.x. (also in Perforce though not  always caught up with what I
  have done in -current/P4). The subset allows a number of FIBs
  to be defined at compile time (8 is sufficient for my purposes in 6.x)
  and implements the changes needed to allow IPV4 to use them. I have not
  done the changes for ipv6 simply because I do not need it, and I do not
  have enough knowledge of ipv6 (e.g. neighbor discovery) needed to do it.

  Other protocol families are left untouched and should there be
  users with proprietary protocol families, they should continue to work
  and be oblivious to the existence of the extra FIBs.

  To understand how this is done, one must know that the current FIB
  code starts everything off with a single dimensional array of
  pointers to FIB head structures (One per protocol family), each of
  which in turn points to the trie of routes available to that family.

  The basic change in the ABI compatible version of the change is to
  extent that array to be a 2 dimensional array, so that
  instead of protocol family X looking at rt_tables[X] for the
  table it needs, it looks at rt_tables[Y][X] when for all
  protocol families except ipv4 Y is always 0.
  Code that is unaware of the change always just sees the first row
  of the table, which of course looks just like the one dimensional
  array that existed before.

  The entry points rtrequest(), rtalloc(), rtalloc1(), rtalloc_ign()
  are all maintained, but refer only to the first row of the array,
  so that existing callers in proprietary protocols can continue to
  do the "right thing".
  Some new entry points are added, for the exclusive use of ipv4 code
  called in_rtrequest(), in_rtalloc(), in_rtalloc1() and in_rtalloc_ign(),
  which have an extra argument which refers the code to the correct row.

  In addition, there are some new entry points (currently called
  rtalloc_fib() and friends) that check the Address family being
  looked up and call either rtalloc() (and friends) if the protocol
  is not IPv4 forcing the action to row 0 or to the appropriate row
  if it IS IPv4 (and that info is available). These are for calling
  from code that is not specific to any particular protocol. The way
  these are implemented would change in the non ABI preserving code
  to be added later.

  One feature of the first version of the code is that for ipv4,
  the interface routes show up automatically on all the FIBs, so
  that no matter what FIB you select you always have the basic
  direct attached hosts available to you. (rtinit() does this
  automatically).

  You CAN delete an interface route from one FIB should you want
  to but by default it's there. ARP information is also available
  in each FIB. It's assumed that the same machine would have the
  same MAC address, regardless of which FIB you are using to get
  to it.

  This brings us as to how the correct FIB is selected for an outgoing
  IPV4 packet.

  Firstly, all packets have a FIB associated with them. if nothing
  has been done to change it, it will be FIB 0. The FIB is changed
  in the following ways.

  Packets fall into one of a number of classes.

  1/ locally generated packets, coming from a socket/PCB.
     Such packets select a FIB from a number associated with the
     socket/PCB. This in turn is inherited from the process,
     but can be changed by a socket option. The process in turn
     inherits it on fork. I have written a utility call setfib
     that acts a bit like nice..

         setfib -3 ping target.example.com # will use fib 3 for ping.

     It is an obvious extension to make it a property of a jail
     but I have not done so. It can be achieved by combining the setfib and
     jail commands.

  2/ packets received on an interface for forwarding.
     By default these packets would use table 0,
     (or possibly a number settable in a sysctl(not yet)).
     but prior to routing the firewall can inspect them (see below).
     (possibly in the future you may be able to associate a FIB
     with packets received on an interface..  An ifconfig arg, but not yet.)

  3/ packets inspected by a packet classifier, which can arbitrarily
     associate a fib with it on a packet by packet basis.
     A fib assigned to a packet by a packet classifier
     (such as ipfw) would over-ride a fib associated by
     a more default source. (such as cases 1 or 2).

  4/ a tcp listen socket associated with a fib will generate
     accept sockets that are associated with that same fib.

  5/ Packets generated in response to some other packet (e.g. reset
     or icmp packets). These should use the FIB associated with the
     packet being reponded to.

  6/ Packets generated during encapsulation.
     gif, tun and other tunnel interfaces will encapsulate using the FIB
     that was in effect withthe proces that set up the tunnel.
     thus setfib 1 ifconfig gif0 [tunnel instructions]
     will set the fib for the tunnel to use to be fib 1.

  Routing messages would be associated with their
  process, and thus select one FIB or another.
  messages from the kernel would be associated with the fib they
  refer to and would only be received by a routing socket associated
  with that fib. (not yet implemented)

  In addition Netstat has been edited to be able to cope with the
  fact that the array is now 2 dimensional. (It looks in system
  memory using libkvm (!)). Old versions of netstat see only the first FIB.

  In addition two sysctls are added to give:
  a) the number of FIBs compiled in (active)
  b) the default FIB of the calling process.

  Early testing experience:
  -------------------------

  Basically our (IronPort's) appliance does this functionality already
  using ipfw fwd but that method has some drawbacks.

  For example,
  It can't fully simulate a routing table because it can't influence the
  socket's choice of local address when a connect() is done.

  Testing during the generating of these changes has been
  remarkably smooth so far. Multiple tables have co-existed
  with no notable side effects, and packets have been routes
  accordingly.

  ipfw has grown 2 new keywords:

  setfib N ip from anay to any
  count ip from any to any fib N

  In pf there seems to be a requirement to be able to give symbolic names to the
  fibs but I do not have that capacity. I am not sure if it is required.

  SCTP has interestingly enough built in support for this, called VRFs
  in Cisco parlance. it will be interesting to see how that handles it
  when it suddenly actually does something.

  Where to next:
  --------------------

  After committing the ABI compatible version and MFCing it, I'd
  like to proceed in a forward direction in -current. this will
  result in some roto-tilling in the routing code.

  Firstly: the current code's idea of having a separate tree per
  protocol family, all of the same format, and pointed to by the
  1 dimensional array is a bit silly. Especially when one considers that
  there is code that makes assumptions about every protocol having the
  same internal structures there. Some protocols don't WANT that
  sort of structure. (for example the whole idea of a netmask is foreign
  to appletalk). This needs to be made opaque to the external code.

  My suggested first change is to add routing method pointers to the
  'domain' structure, along with information pointing the data.
  instead of having an array of pointers to uniform structures,
  there would be an array pointing to the 'domain' structures
  for each protocol address domain (protocol family),
  and the methods this reached would be called. The methods would have
  an argument that gives FIB number, but the protocol would be free
  to ignore it.

  When the ABI can be changed it raises the possibilty of the
  addition of a fib entry into the "struct route". Currently,
  the structure contains the sockaddr of the desination, and the resulting
  fib entry. To make this work fully, one could add a fib number
  so that given an address and a fib, one can find the third element, the
  fib entry.

  Interaction with the ARP layer/ LL layer would need to be
  revisited as well. Qing Li has been working on this already.

  This work was sponsored by Ironport Systems/Cisco

Reviewed by:    several including rwatson, bz and mlair (parts each)
Obtained from:  Ironport systems/Cisco
2008-05-09 23:03:00 +00:00