instead of a linear array.
The multicast memberships for the inpcb structure are protected by a
non-sleepable lock, INP_WLOCK(), which needs to be dropped when
calling the underlying possibly sleeping if_ioctl() method. When using
a linear array to keep track of multicast memberships, the computed
memory location of the multicast filter may suddenly change, due to
concurrent insertion or removal of elements in the linear array. This
in turn leads to various invalid memory access issues and kernel
panics.
To avoid this problem, put all multicast memberships on a STAILQ based
list. Then the memory location of the IPv4 and IPv6 multicast filters
become fixed during their lifetime and use after free and memory leak
issues are easier to track, for example by: vmstat -m | grep multi
All list manipulation has been factored into inline functions
including some macros, to easily allow for a future hash-list
implementation, if needed.
This patch has been tested by pho@ .
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20080
Reviewed by: markj @
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
The KPI have been reviewed and cleansed of features that were planned
back 20 years ago and never implemented. The pfil(9) internals have
been made opaque to protocols with only returned types and function
declarations exposed. The KPI is made more strict, but at the same time
more extensible, as kernel uses same command structures that userland
ioctl uses.
In nutshell [KA]PI is about declaring filtering points, declaring
filters and linking and unlinking them together.
New [KA]PI makes it possible to reconfigure pfil(9) configuration:
change order of hooks, rehook filter from one filtering point to a
different one, disconnect a hook on output leaving it on input only,
prepend/append a filter to existing list of filters.
Now it possible for a single packet filter to provide multiple rulesets
that may be linked to different points. Think of per-interface ACLs in
Cisco or Juniper. None of existing packet filters yet support that,
however limited usage is already possible, e.g. default ruleset can
be moved to single interface, as soon as interface would pride their
filtering points.
Another future feature is possiblity to create pfil heads, that provide
not an mbuf pointer but just a memory pointer with length. That would
allow filtering at very early stages of a packet lifecycle, e.g. when
packet has just been received by a NIC and no mbuf was yet allocated.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18951
Specifically, block 0-length fragments, even when the MF bit is clear.
Also, ensure that every fragment with the MF bit clear ends at the same
offset and that no subsequently-received fragments exceed that offset.
Reviewed by: glebius, markj
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17922
Avoid the ugly unlock / lock of the inpcbinfo where we need to
figure out what kind of lock we hold by simply deferring the
operation to another context. (Also a small dependency for
converting the pcbinfo read lock to epoch)
to avoid a LOR on the multicast list lock in the freemoptions routines.
As it turns out, tcp_usr_detach can acquire the tcbinfo lock readonly.
Trying to wunlock the pcbinfo lock in that context has caused a number
of reported crashes.
This change unclutters in_pcbfree and moves the handling of wunlock vs
runlock of pcbinfo to the freemoptions routine.
Reported by: mjg@, bde@, o.hartmann at walstatt.org
Approved by: sbruno
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
specific order. VNET_SYSUNINITs however are doing exactly that.
Thus remove the VIMAGE conditional field from the domain(9) protosw
structure and replace it with VNET_SYSUNINITs.
This also allows us to change some order and to make the teardown functions
file local static.
Also convert divert(4) as it uses the same mechanism ip(4) and ip6(4) use
internally.
Slightly reshuffle the SI_SUB_* fields in kernel.h and add a new ones, e.g.,
for pfil consumers (firewalls), partially for this commit and for others
to come.
Reviewed by: gnn, tuexen (sctp), jhb (kernel.h)
Obtained from: projects/vnet
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC: do not remove pr_destroy
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6652
ip_dooptions(), icmp6_redirect_input(), in6_lltable_rtcheck(),
in6p_lookup_mcast_ifp() and in6_selecthlim() use new routing api.
Eliminate now-unused ip_rtaddr().
Fix lookup key fib6_lookup_nh_basic() which was lost diring merge.
Make fib6_lookup_nh_basic() and fib6_lookup_nh_extended() always
return IPv6 destination address with embedded scope. Currently
rw_gateway has it scope embedded, do the same for non-gatewayed
destinations.
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
where we want to create a new IP datagram.
o Add support for RFC6864, which allows to set IP ID for atomic IP
datagrams to any value, to improve performance. The behaviour is
controlled by net.inet.ip.rfc6864 sysctl knob, which is enabled by
default.
o In case if we generate IP ID, use counter(9) to improve performance.
o Gather all code related to IP ID into ip_id.c.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2177
Reviewed by: adrian, cy, rpaulo
Tested by: Emeric POUPON <emeric.poupon stormshield.eu>
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Relnotes: yes
overriding an existing flowid/flowtype field in the outbound mbuf with
the inp_flowid/inp_flowtype details.
The upcoming RSS UDP support calculates a valid RSS value for outbound
mbufs and since it may change per send, it doesn't cache it in the inpcb.
So overriding it here would be wrong.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D527
Reviewed by: grehan
the protocol specific mbuf flags are shared between them.
- Move all M_FOO definitions into a single place: netinet/in6.h, to
avoid future clashes.
- Resolve clash between M_DECRYPTED and M_SKIP_FIREWALL which resulted
in a failure of operation of IPSEC and packet filters.
Thanks to Nicolas and Georgios for all the hard work on bisecting,
testing and finally finding the root of the problem.
PR: kern/186755
PR: kern/185876
In collaboration with: Georgios Amanakis <gamanakis gmail.com>
In collaboration with: Nicolas DEFFAYET <nicolas-ml deffayet.com>
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
flag instead. The flag is only used within the IP and IPv6 layer 3
protocols.
Because some firewall packages treat IPv4 and IPv6 packets the same the
flag should have the same value for both.
Discussed with: trociny, glebius
Convert 'struct ipstat' and 'struct tcpstat' to counter(9).
This speeds up IP forwarding at extreme packet rates, and
makes accounting more precise.
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Instead, add protocol specific mbuf flags M_IP_NEXTHOP and
M_IP6_NEXTHOP. Use them to indicate that the mbuf's chain
contains the PACKET_TAG_IPFORWARD tag. And do a tag lookup
only when this flag is set.
Suggested by: andre
on checksums directly from mbuf flags. This simplifies code.
o Clear CSUM_IP from the mbuf in ip_fragment() if we did checksums in
hardware. Some driver may not announce CSUM_IP in theur if_hwassist,
although try to do checksums if CSUM_IP set on mbuf. Example is em(4).
o While here, consistently use CSUM_IP instead of its alias CSUM_DELAY_IP.
After this change CSUM_DELAY_IP vanishes from the stack.
Submitted by: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb lineratesystems.com>
enabled. This eliminates one mtx_lock() per each routing lookup thus improving
performance in several cases (routing to directly connected interface or routing
to default gateway).
Icmp redirects should not be used to provide routing direction nowadays, even
for end hosts. Routers should not use them too (and this is explicitly restricted
in IPv6, see RFC 4861, clause 8.2).
Current commit changes rnh_machaddr function to 'stock' rn_match (and back) for every
AF_INET routing table in given VNET instance on drop_redirect sysctl change.
This change is part of bigger patch eliminating rte locking.
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
MFC after: 2 weeks
Merge ether_ipfw_chk() and part of bridge_pfil() into
unified ipfw_check_frame() function called by PFIL.
This change was suggested by rwatson? @ DevSummit.
Remove ipfw headers from ether/bridge code since they are unneeded now.
Note this thange introduce some (temporary) performance penalty since
PFIL read lock has to be acquired for every link-level packet.
MFC after: 3 weeks
asychronous task. This avoids tearing down multicast state including
sending IGMP leave messages and reprogramming MAC filters while holding
the per-protocol global pcbinfo lock that is used in the receive path of
packet processing.
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 1 month
possible to organize subroutines with rules.
The "call" action saves the current rule number in the internal
stack and rules processing continues from the first rule with
specified number (similar to skipto action). If later a rule with
"return" action is encountered, the processing returns to the first
rule with number of "call" rule saved in the stack plus one or higher.
Submitted by: Vadim Goncharov
Discussed by: ipfw@, luigi@
Move the ipport_tick_callout and related functions from ip_input.c
to in_pcb.c. The random source port allocation code has been merged
and is now local to in_pcb.c only.
Use a SYSINIT to get the callout started and no longer depend on
initialization from the inet code, which would not work in an IPv6
only setup.
Reviewed by: gnn
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: iXsystems
MFC after: 4 days
In protosw we define pr_protocol as short, while on the wire
it is an uint8_t. That way we can have "internal" protocols
like DIVERT, SEND or gaps for modules (PROTO_SPACER).
Switch ipproto_{un,}register to accept a short protocol number(*)
and do an upfront check for valid boundries. With this we
also consistently report EPROTONOSUPPORT for out of bounds
protocols, as we did for proto == 0. This allows a caller
to not error for this case, which is especially important
if we want to automatically call these from domain handling.
(*) the functions have been without any in-tree consumer
since the initial introducation, so this is considered save.
Implement ip6proto_{un,}register() similarly to their legacy IP
counter parts to allow modules to hook up dynamically.
Reviewed by: philip, will
MFC after: 1 week
"Whitspace" churn after the VIMAGE/VNET whirls.
Remove the need for some "init" functions within the network
stack, like pim6_init(), icmp_init() or significantly shorten
others like ip6_init() and nd6_init(), using static initialization
again where possible and formerly missed.
Move (most) variables back to the place they used to be before the
container structs and VIMAGE_GLOABLS (before r185088) and try to
reduce the diff to stable/7 and earlier as good as possible,
to help out-of-tree consumers to update from 6.x or 7.x to 8 or 9.
This also removes some header file pollution for putatively
static global variables.
Revert VIMAGE specific changes in ipfilter::ip_auth.c, that are
no longer needed.
Reviewed by: jhb
Discussed with: rwatson
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: CK Software GmbH
MFC after: 6 days
a "locked" version that will only handle a single network stack
instance. The latter is called directly from ip_destroy().
Hook up an ip_destroy() function to release resources from the
legacy IP network layer upon virtual network stack teardown.
Sponsored by: ISPsystem
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC After: 5 days
ip_divert work as a client of pf(4),
make ip_divert not depend on ipfw.
This is achieved by moving to ip_var.h the struct ipfw_rule_ref
(which is part of the mtag for all reinjected packets) and other
declarations of global variables, and moving to raw_ip.c global
variables for filter and divert hooks.
Note that names and locations could be made more generic
(ipfw_rule_ref is really a generic reference robust to reconfigurations;
the packet filter is not necessarily ipfw; filters and their clients
are not necessarily limited to ipv4), but _right now_ most
of this stuff works on ipfw and ipv4, so i don't feel like
doing a gratuitous renaming, at least for the time being.
packet filters. ALso allows ipfw to be enabled on on ejail and disabled
on another. In 8.0 it's a global setting.
Sitting aroung in tree waiting to commit for: 2 months
MFC after: 2 months
all pertinent statatistics for the subsystem. These structures are
sometimes "borrowed" by kernel modules that require a place to store
statistics for similar events.
Add KPI accessor functions for statistics structures referenced by kernel
modules so that they no longer encode certain specifics of how the data
structures are named and stored. This change is intended to make it
easier to move to per-CPU network stats following 8.0-RELEASE.
The following modules are affected by this change:
if_bridge
if_cxgb
if_gif
ip_mroute
ipdivert
pf
In practice, most of these statistics consumers should, in fact, maintain
their own statistics data structures rather than borrowing structures
from the base network stack. However, that change is too agressive for
this point in the release cycle.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (kib)
(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)
missing it.
Remove the "hidden" kernel only include of vimage.h from ip_var.h added
with the very first Vimage commit r181803 to avoid further kernel poisoning.
Vnet modules and protocol domains may now register destructor
functions to clean up and release per-module state. The destructor
mechanisms can be triggered by invoking "vimage -d", or a future
equivalent command which will be provided via the new jail framework.
While this patch introduces numerous placeholder destructor functions,
many of those are currently incomplete, thus leaking memory or (even
worse) failing to stop all running timers. Many of such issues are
already known and will be incrementaly fixed over the next weeks in
smaller incremental commits.
Apart from introducing new fields in structs ifnet, domain, protosw
and vnet_net, which requires the kernel and modules to be rebuilt, this
change should have no impact on nooptions VIMAGE builds, since vnet
destructors can only be called in VIMAGE kernels. Moreover,
destructor functions should be in general compiled in only in
options VIMAGE builds, except for kernel modules which can be safely
kldunloaded at run time.
Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
Reviewed by: bz, julian
Approved by: rwatson, kib (re), julian (mentor)
+ move ipfw and dummynet hooks declarations to raw_ip.c (definitions
in ip_var.h) same as for most other global variables.
This removes some dependencies from ip_input.c;
+ remove the IPFW_LOADED macro, just test ip_fw_chk_ptr directly;
+ remove the DUMMYNET_LOADED macro, just test ip_dn_io_ptr directly;
+ move ip_dn_ruledel_ptr to ip_fw2.c which is the only file using it;
To be merged together with rev 193497
MFC after: 5 days
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
IPv4 stack.
Diffs are minimized against p4.
PCS has been used for some protocol verification, more widespread
testing of recorded sources in Group-and-Source queries is needed.
sizeof(struct igmpstat) has changed.
__FreeBSD_version is bumped to 800070.
missed under VIMAGE_GLOBAL.
Start putting 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.
While there garbage collect a few dead externs from ip6_var.h.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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
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
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
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:
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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
