and address aliases. After an interface is brought down and brought
back up again, those self pointing routes disappeared. This patch
ensures after an interface is brought back up, the loopback routes
are reinstalled properly.
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: immediately
automatic link-local address configuration:
- Convert a sysctl net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv to one for the
default value of a per-IF flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a
global knob. The default value of the sysctl is 0.
- Add a new per-IF flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL and convert a
sysctl net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal to one for its default
value. The default value of the sysctl is 1.
- Make ND6_IFF_IFDISABLED more robust. It can be used to disable
IPv6 functionality of an interface now.
- Receiving RA is allowed if ip6_forwarding==0 *and*
ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV is set on that interface. The former
condition will be revisited later to support a "host + router" box
like IPv6 CPE router. The current behavior is compatible with
the older releases of FreeBSD.
- The ifconfig(8) now supports these ND6 flags as well as "nud",
"prefer_source", and "disabled" in ndp(8). The ndp(8) now
supports "auto_linklocal".
Discussed with: bz and jinmei
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 3 days
- Interface link-local address is not reachable within the
node that owns the interface, this is due to the mismatch
in address scope as the result of the installed interface
address loopback route. Therefore for each interface
address loopback route, the rt_gateway field (of AF_LINK
type) will be used to track which interface a given
address belongs to. This will aid the address source to
use the proper interface for address scope/zone validation.
- The loopback address is not reachable. The root cause is
the same as the above.
- Empty nd6 entries are created for the IPv6 loopback addresses
only for validation reason. Doing so will eliminate as much
of the special case (loopback addresses) handling code
as possible, however, these empty nd6 entries should not
be returned to the userland applications such as the
"ndp" command.
Since both of the above issues contain common files, these
files are committed together.
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: immediately
list/index locks, to protect link layer address tables. This avoids
lock order issues during interface teardown, but maintains the bug that
sysctl copy routines may be called while a non-sleepable lock is held.
Reviewed by: bz, kmacy
MFC after: 3 days
several critical bugs, including race conditions and lock order issues:
Replace the single rwlock, ifnet_lock, with two locks, an rwlock and an
sxlock. Either can be held to stablize the lists and indexes, but both
are required to write. This allows the list to be held stable in both
network interrupt contexts and sleepable user threads across sleeping
memory allocations or device driver interactions. As before, writes to
the interface list must occur from sleepable contexts.
Reviewed by: bz, julian
MFC after: 3 days
address is configured with a /128 prefix. This is no longer necessary due
to r192011. In fact that code conflicts with r192011. This patch removes
the host route installation when detecting the /128 prefix, and instead
let the code added by r192011 to install the loopback route for that IPv6
interface address.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re
vnet.h, we now use jails (rather than vimages) as the abstraction
for virtualization management, and what remained was specific to
virtual network stacks. Minor cleanups are done in the process,
and comments updated to reflect these changes.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (vimage blanket)
- Allow loopback route to be installed for address assigned to
interface of IFF_POINTOPOINT type.
- Install loopback route for an IPv4 interface addreess when the
"useloopback" sysctl variable is enabled. Similarly, install
loopback route for an IPv6 interface address when the sysctl variable
"nd6_useloopback" is enabled. Deleting loopback routes for interface
addresses is unconditional in case these sysctl variables were
disabled after an interface address has been assigned.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re
(DPCPU), as suggested by Peter Wemm, and implement a new per-virtual
network stack memory allocator. Modify vnet to use the allocator
instead of monolithic global container structures (vinet, ...). This
change solves many binary compatibility problems associated with
VIMAGE, and restores ELF symbols for virtualized global variables.
Each virtualized global variable exists as a "reference copy", and also
once per virtual network stack. Virtualized global variables are
tagged at compile-time, placing the in a special linker set, which is
loaded into a contiguous region of kernel memory. Virtualized global
variables in the base kernel are linked as normal, but those in modules
are copied and relocated to a reserved portion of the kernel's vnet
region with the help of a the kernel linker.
Virtualized global variables exist in per-vnet memory set up when the
network stack instance is created, and are initialized statically from
the reference copy. Run-time access occurs via an accessor macro, which
converts from the current vnet and requested symbol to a per-vnet
address. When "options VIMAGE" is not compiled into the kernel, normal
global ELF symbols will be used instead and indirection is avoided.
This change restores static initialization for network stack global
variables, restores support for non-global symbols and types, eliminates
the need for many subsystem constructors, eliminates large per-subsystem
structures that caused many binary compatibility issues both for
monitoring applications (netstat) and kernel modules, removes the
per-function INIT_VNET_*() macros throughout the stack, eliminates the
need for vnet_symmap ksym(2) munging, and eliminates duplicate
definitions of virtualized globals under VIMAGE_GLOBALS.
Bump __FreeBSD_version and update UPDATING.
Portions submitted by: bz
Reviewed by: bz, zec
Discussed with: gnn, jamie, jeff, jhb, julian, sam
Suggested by: peter
Approved by: re (kensmith)
to a non loopback/ppp link type) through the loopback interface. Prior
to the new L2/L3 rewrite, this host route was explicitly created when
processing the IPv6 address assignment. This loopback host route is
deleted when that IPv6 address is removed from the interface.
Reviewed by: bz, gnn
Approved by: re
in one additional case, avoiding an ifaddr reference leak.
Defer releasing the in6_ifaddr's in6_ifaddrhead reference until the
end of in6_unlink_ifa(), as callers are inconsistent regarding whether
or not they hold a reference across the call. This avoids using the
ifaddr after it may have been freed.
Reported by: tegge
Reviewed by: tegge
Approved by: re (blanket)
MFC after: 6 weeks
for in_ifaddrhead, we stick with an rwlock for the time being, which
we will revisit in the future with a possible move to rmlocks.
Some pieces of code require significant further reworking to be
safe from all classes of writer-writer races.
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 6 weeks
in particular, add a reference for in6_ifaddrhead since we do remove a
reference for it when an IPv6 address is removed. This fixes ifconfig
delete of an IPv6 alias.
Reported by: tegge
MFC after: 6 weeks
for the global IPv6 address list (in6_ifaddr -> in6_ifaddrhead). Adopt
the code styles and conventions present in netinet where possible.
Reviewed by: gnn, bz
MFC after: 6 weeks (possibly not MFCable?)
rather than pointers, requiring callers to properly dispose of those
references. The following routines now return references:
ifaddr_byindex
ifa_ifwithaddr
ifa_ifwithbroadaddr
ifa_ifwithdstaddr
ifa_ifwithnet
ifaof_ifpforaddr
ifa_ifwithroute
ifa_ifwithroute_fib
rt_getifa
rt_getifa_fib
IFP_TO_IA
ip_rtaddr
in6_ifawithifp
in6ifa_ifpforlinklocal
in6ifa_ifpwithaddr
in6_ifadd
carp_iamatch6
ip6_getdstifaddr
Remove unused macro which didn't have required referencing:
IFP_TO_IA6
This closes many small races in which changes to interface
or address lists while an ifaddr was in use could lead to use of freed
memory (etc). In a few cases, add missing if_addr_list locking
required to safely acquire references.
Because of a lack of deep copying support, we accept a race in which
an in6_ifaddr pointed to by mbuf tags and extracted with
ip6_getdstifaddr() doesn't hold a reference while in transmit. Once
we have mbuf tag deep copy support, this can be fixed.
Reviewed by: bz
Obtained from: Apple, Inc. (portions)
MFC after: 6 weeks (portions)
- Unify reference count and lock initialization in a single function,
ifa_init().
- Move tear-down from a macro (IFAFREE) to a function ifa_free().
- Move reference count bump from a macro (IFAREF) to a function ifa_ref().
- Instead of using a u_int protected by a mutex to refcount(9) for
reference count management.
The ifa_mtx is now used for exactly one ioctl, and possibly should be
removed.
MFC after: 3 weeks
the ROUTETABLES kernel option thus there is no need to include opt_route.h
anymore in all consumers of vnet.h and no longer depend on it for module
builds.
Remove the hidden include in flowtable.h as well and leave the two
explicit #includes in ip_input.c and ip_output.c.
by creating a child jail, which is visible to that jail and to any
parent jails. Child jails may be restricted more than their parents,
but never less. Jail names reflect this hierarchy, being MIB-style
dot-separated strings.
Every thread now points to a jail, the default being prison0, which
contains information about the physical system. Prison0's root
directory is the same as rootvnode; its hostname is the same as the
global hostname, and its securelevel replaces the global securelevel.
Note that the variable "securelevel" has actually gone away, which
should not cause any problems for code that properly uses
securelevel_gt() and securelevel_ge().
Some jail-related permissions that were kept in global variables and
set via sysctls are now per-jail settings. The sysctls still exist for
backward compatibility, used only by the now-deprecated jail(2) system
call.
Approved by: bz (mentor)
route is also being deleted, the link-layer address table
(arp or nd6) will flush those L2 llinfo entries that match
the removed prefix.
Reviewed by: kmacy
-- A routing socket message is not generated when an IPv6 address is
either inserted or deleted from an interface. The missing routing
message problem was discovered by Randall Stewart and Michael Tuxen
during SCTP testing.
-- Previously when an IPv6 address is configured on an interface, if the
prefix length is /128, then a host route is instaleld in the kernel
for this address. But this host route is not deleted when that IPv6
address is removed from the interface.
-- Routes to the link-local all-nodes multicast address and the
interface-local all-nodes multicast address are not removed when
the last IPv6 address is removed from an interface.
Reviewed by: bz, gnn
import from p4 bms_netdev. Summary of changes:
* Connect netinet6/in6_mcast.c to build.
The legacy KAME KPIs are mostly preserved.
* Eliminate now dead code from ip6_output.c.
Don't do mbuf bingo, we are not going to do RFC 2292 style
CMSG tricks for multicast options as they are not required
by any current IPv6 normative reference.
* Refactor transports (UDP, raw_ip6) to do own mcast filtering.
SCTP, TCP unaffected by this change.
* Add ip6_msource, in6_msource structs to in6_var.h.
* Hookup mld_ifinfo state to in6_ifextra, allocate from
domifattach path.
* Eliminate IN6_LOOKUP_MULTI(), it is no longer referenced.
Kernel consumers which need this should use in6m_lookup().
* Refactor IPv6 socket group memberships to use a vector (like IPv4).
* Update ifmcstat(8) for IPv6 SSM.
* Add witness lock order for IN6_MULTI_LOCK.
* Move IN6_MULTI_LOCK out of lower ip6_output()/ip6_input() paths.
* Introduce IP6STAT_ADD/SUB/INC/DEC as per rwatson's IPv4 cleanup.
* Update carp(4) for new IPv6 SSM KPIs.
* Virtualize ip6_mrouter socket.
Changes mostly localized to IPv6 MROUTING.
* Don't do a local group lookup in MROUTING.
* Kill unused KAME prototypes in6_purgemkludge(), in6_restoremkludge().
* Preserve KAME DAD timer jitter behaviour in MLDv1 compatibility mode.
* Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800084.
* Update UPDATING.
NOTE WELL:
* This code hasn't been tested against real MLDv2 queriers
(yet), although the on-wire protocol has been verified in Wireshark.
* There are a few unresolved issues in the socket layer APIs to
do with scope ID propagation.
* There is a LOR present in ip6_output()'s use of
in6_setscope() which needs to be resolved. See comments in mld6.c.
This is believed to be benign and can't be avoided for the moment
without re-introducing an indirect netisr.
This work was mostly derived from the IGMPv3 implementation, and
has been sponsored by a third party.
in FreeBSD 5.x to allow network device drivers to run with Giant
despite the network stack being Giant-free. This significantly
simplifies calls into ioctl() on network interfaces, especially
in the multicast code, as well as eliminates deferred invocation
of interface if_start routines.
Disable the build on device drivers still depending on
IFF_NEEDSGIANT as they no longer compile. They will be removed
in a few weeks if they haven't been made MPSAFE in that time.
Disabled drivers:
if_ar
if_axe
if_aue
if_cdce
if_cue
if_kue
if_ray
if_rue
if_rum
if_sr
if_udav
if_ural
if_zyd
Drivers that were already disabled because of tty changes:
if_ppp
if_sl
Discussed on: arch@
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.
return zero on success and an error code otherwise. The possible errors
are EADDRNOTAVAIL if an address being checked for doesn't match the
prison, and EAFNOSUPPORT if the prison doesn't have any addresses in
that address family. For most callers of these functions, use the
returned error code instead of e.g. a hard-coded EADDRNOTAVAIL or
EINVAL.
Always include a jailed() check in these functions, where a non-jailed
cred always returns success (and makes no changes). Remove the explicit
jailed() checks that preceded many of the function calls.
Approved by: bz (mentor)
a locked route. Thus we have to use RTFREE_LOCKED(9) to get it unlocked
and rtfree(9)d rather than just rtfree(9)d.
Since the PR was filed, new places with the same problem were added
with new code. Also check that the rt is valid before freeing it
either way there.
PR: kern/129793
Submitted by: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj@ece.gatech.edu>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Committed from: Bugathon #6
by the new kernel option COMPAT_ROUTE_FLAGS for binary backward
compatibility. The RTF_LLDATA flag maps to the same value as RTF_LLINFO.
RTF_LLDATA is used by the arp and ndp utilities. The RTF_LLDATA flag is
always returned to the userland regardless whether the COMPAT_ROUTE_FLAGS
is defined.
read with libkvm) to the addresses of a prison, when inside a
jail. [1]
As the patch from the PR was pre-'new-arp', add checks to the
llt_dump handlers as well.
While touching RTM_GET in route_output(), consistently use
curthread credentials rather than the creds from the socket
there. [2]
PR: kern/68189
Submitted by: Mark Delany <sxcg2-fuwxj@qmda.emu.st> [1]
Discussed with: rwatson [2]
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 4 weeks
jail-aware. Up to now we returned the first address of the interface
for SIOCGIFADDR w/o an ifr_addr in the query. This caused problems for
programs querying for an address but running inside a jail, as the
address returned usually did not belong to the jail.
Like for v6, if there was an ifr_addr given on v4, you could probe
for more addresses on the interfaces that you were not allowed to see
from inside a jail. Return an error (EADDRNOTAVAIL) in that case
now unless the address is on the given interface and valid for the
jail.
PR: kern/114325
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 4 weeks
to ip_output(). The destionation is represented in a sockaddr{} object
that may contain other pieces of information, e.g., port number. This
same destination sockaddr{} object may be passed into L2 code, which
could be used to create a L2 entry. Since there exists a L2 table per
address family, the L2 lookup function can make address family specific
comparison instead of the generic bcmp() operation over the entire
sockaddr{} structure.
Note in the IPv6 case the sin6_scope_id is not compared because the
address is currently stored in the embedded form inside the kernel.
The in6_lltable_lookup() has to account for the scope-id if this
storage format were to change in the future.
1. The "route" command allows route insertion through the interface-direct
option "-iface". During if_attach(), an sockaddr_dl{} entry is created
for the interface and is part of the interface address list. This
sockaddr_dl{} entry describes the interface in detail. The "route"
command selects this entry as the "gateway" object when the "-iface"
option is present. The "arp" and "ndp" commands also interact with the
kernel through the routing socket when adding and removing static L2
entries. The static L2 information is also provided through the
"gateway" object with an AF_LINK family type, similar to what is
provided by the "route" command. In order to differentiate between
these two types of operations, a RTF_LLDATA flag is introduced. This
flag is set by the "arp" and "ndp" commands when issuing the add and
delete commands. This flag is also set in each L2 entry returned by the
kernel. The "arp" and "ndp" command follows a convention where a RTM_GET
is issued first followed by a RTM_ADD/DELETE. This RTM_GET request fills
in the fields for a "rtm" object, which is reinjected into the kernel by
a subsequent RTM_ADD/DELETE command. The entry returend from RTM_GET
is a prefix route, so the RTF_LLDATA flag must be specified when issuing
the RTM_ADD/DELETE messages.
2. Enforce the convention that NET_RT_FLAGS with a 0 w_arg is the
specification for retrieving L2 information. Also optimized the
code logic.
Reviewed by: julian
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
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
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
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
to global hostname and domainname variables. Where necessary, copy
to or from a stack-local buffer before performing copyin() or
copyout(). A few uses, such as in cd9660 and daemon_saver, remain
under-synchronized and will require further updates.
Correct a bug in which a failed copyin() of domainname would leave
domainname potentially corrupted.
MFC after: 3 weeks
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:
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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:
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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
