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.Dd $Mdocdate: June 5 2009 $
.Dt ROUTE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm route
.Nd kernel packet forwarding database
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/socket.h>
.Fd #include <net/if.h>
.Fd #include <net/route.h>
.Ft int
.Fn socket PF_ROUTE SOCK_RAW family
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Ox
provides some packet routing facilities.
The kernel maintains a routing information database, which
is used in selecting the appropriate network interface when
transmitting packets.
.Pp
A user process (or possibly multiple co-operating processes)
maintains this database by sending messages over a special kind
of socket.
This supplants fixed size
.Xr ioctl 2 Ns 's
used in earlier releases.
Routing table changes may only be carried out by the super user.
.Pp
The operating system may spontaneously emit routing messages in response
to external events, such as receipt of a redirect, or failure to
locate a suitable route for a request.
The message types are described in greater detail below.
.Pp
Routing database entries come in two flavors: for a specific
host, or for all hosts on a generic subnetwork (as specified
by a bit mask and value under the mask).
The effect of wildcard or default route may be achieved by using
a mask of all zeros, and there may be hierarchical routes.
.Pp
When the system is booted and addresses are assigned
to the network interfaces, each protocol family
installs a routing table entry for each interface when it is ready for traffic.
Normally the protocol specifies the route
through each interface as a
.Dq direct
connection to the destination host
or network.
If the route is direct, the transport layer of a protocol family usually
requests the packet be sent to the same host specified in the packet.
Otherwise, the interface is requested to address the packet to the gateway
listed in the routing entry (i.e., the packet is forwarded).
.Pp
When routing a packet,
the kernel will attempt to find
the most specific route matching the destination.
(If there are two different mask and value-under-the-mask pairs
that match, the more specific is the one with more bits in the mask.
A route to a host is regarded as being supplied with a mask of
as many ones as there are bits in the destination.)
If no entry is found, the destination is declared to be unreachable,
and a routing\-miss message is generated if there are any
listeners on the routing control socket described below.
.Pp
A wildcard routing entry is specified with a zero
destination address value and a mask of all zeroes.
Wildcard routes will be used
when the system fails to find other routes matching the
destination.
The combination of wildcard routes and routing redirects can provide
an economical mechanism for routing traffic.
Routes created by redirects from wildcard routes and other routes
will be marked
.Em cloned ,
until their
.Dq parent
from which they were created has disappeared.
.Pp
Route labels can be attached to routes and may contain arbitrary
information about the route.
Labels are sent over the routing socket (see below) as
.Vt sockaddr_rtlabel
structures.
.Ss The Routing Socket
One opens the channel for passing routing control messages
by using the
.Xr socket 2
call shown in the
.Sx SYNOPSIS
above.
.Pp
The
.Fa family
parameter may be
.Dv AF_UNSPEC ,
which will provide
routing information for all address families, or can be restricted
to a specific address family by specifying which one is desired.
There can be more than one routing socket open per system.
.Pp
Messages are formed by a header followed by a small
number of
.Vt sockaddr
structures (which are variable length),
interpreted by position, and delimited
by the length entry in the
.Vt sockaddr .
An example of a message with four addresses might be an
IPv4 route addition: the destination, netmask, gateway, and label,
since both netmasks and labels are sent over the routing socket as
.Vt sockaddr
structures.
The interpretation of which addresses are present is given by a
bit mask within the header, and the sequence is least significant
to most significant bit within the vector.
.Pp
Any messages sent to the kernel are returned, and copies are sent
to all interested listeners.
The kernel will provide the process ID
for the sender, and the sender may use an additional sequence
field to distinguish between outstanding messages.
However, message replies may be lost when kernel buffers are exhausted.
.Pp
The kernel may reject certain messages, and will indicate this
by filling in the
.Va rtm_errno
field.
The routing code returns
.Er EEXIST
if
requested to duplicate an existing entry,
.Er ESRCH
if
requested to delete a non-existent entry,
or
.Er ENOBUFS
if insufficient resources were available
to install a new route.
In the current implementation, all routing processes run locally,
and the values for
.Va rtm_errno
are available through the normal
.Va errno
mechanism, even if the routing reply message is lost.
.Pp
A process may avoid the expense of reading replies to
its own messages by issuing a
.Xr setsockopt 2
call indicating that the
.Dv SO_USELOOPBACK
option at the
.Dv SOL_SOCKET
level is to be turned off.
A process may ignore all messages from the routing socket
by doing a
.Xr shutdown 2
system call for further input.
.Pp
A process can specify a routing domain by setting the
.Dv SO_RDOMAIN
flag to
.Xr setsockopt 2 .
.Pp
A process can specify which route message types it's interested in
by using
.Dv ROUTE_FILTER(int type)
and issuing a setsockopt call with the
.Dv ROUTE_MSGFILTER
option at the
.Dv AF_ROUTE
level.
For example, to only get interface specific messages:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
unsigned int rtfilter;
rtfilter = ROUTE_FILTER(RTM_IFINFO) |
ROUTE_FILTER(RTM_IFANNOUNCE);
if (setsockopt(routefd, PF_ROUTE, ROUTE_MSGFILTER,
&rtfilter, sizeof(rtfilter)) == -1)
err(1, "setsockopt(ROUTE_MSGFILTER)");
.Ed
.Pp
If a route is in use when it is deleted,
the routing entry will be marked down and removed from the routing table,
but the resources associated with it will not
be reclaimed until all references to it are released.
User processes can obtain information about the routing
entry to a specific destination by using a
.Dv RTM_GET
message or via the
.Dv PF_ROUTE
.Xr sysctl 3 .
.Pp
Messages include:
.Bd -literal
#define RTM_ADD 0x1 /* Add Route */
#define RTM_DELETE 0x2 /* Delete Route */
#define RTM_CHANGE 0x3 /* Change Metrics or flags */
#define RTM_GET 0x4 /* Report Metrics */
#define RTM_LOSING 0x5 /* Kernel Suspects Partitioning */
#define RTM_REDIRECT 0x6 /* Told to use different route */
#define RTM_MISS 0x7 /* Lookup failed on this address */
#define RTM_LOCK 0x8 /* fix specified metrics */
#define RTM_RESOLVE 0xb /* req to resolve dst to LL addr */
#define RTM_NEWADDR 0xc /* address being added to iface */
#define RTM_DELADDR 0xd /* address being removed from iface */
#define RTM_IFINFO 0xe /* iface going up/down etc. */
#define RTM_IFANNOUNCE 0xf /* iface arrival/departure */
.Ed
.Pp
A message header consists of one of the following:
.Bd -literal
struct rt_msghdr {
u_short rtm_msglen; /* to skip over non-understood messages */
u_char rtm_version; /* future binary compatibility */
u_char rtm_type; /* message type */
u_short rtm_index; /* index for associated ifp */
int rtm_flags; /* flags, incl. kern & message, eg DONE */
int rtm_addrs; /* bitmask identifying sockaddrs in msg */
pid_t rtm_pid; /* identify sender */
int rtm_seq; /* for sender to identify action */
int rtm_errno; /* why failed */
int rtm_use; /* deprecated use rtm_rmx->rmx_pksent */
#define rtm_fmask rtm_use /* bitmask used in RTM_CHANGE message */
u_long rtm_inits; /* which metrics we are initializing */
struct rt_metrics rtm_rmx; /* metrics themselves */
};
struct if_msghdr {
u_short ifm_msglen; /* to skip over non-understood messages */
u_char ifm_version; /* future binary compatibility */
u_char ifm_type; /* message type */
int ifm_addrs; /* like rtm_addrs */
int ifm_flags; /* value of if_flags */
u_short ifm_index; /* index for associated ifp */
struct if_data ifm_data;/* statistics and other data about if */
};
struct ifa_msghdr {
u_short ifam_msglen; /* to skip over non-understood messages */
u_char ifam_version; /* future binary compatibility */
u_char ifam_type; /* message type */
int ifam_addrs; /* like rtm_addrs */
int ifam_flags; /* value of ifa_flags */
u_short ifam_index; /* index for associated ifp */
int ifam_metric; /* value of ifa_metric */
};
struct if_announcemsghdr {
u_short ifan_msglen; /* to skip over non-understood messages */
u_char ifan_version; /* future binary compatibility */
u_char ifan_type; /* message type */
u_short ifan_index; /* index for associated ifp */
char ifan_name[IFNAMSIZ]; /* if name, e.g. "en0" */
u_short ifan_what; /* what type of announcement */
};
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Dv RTM_IFINFO
message uses an
.Vt if_msghdr
header, the
.Dv RTM_NEWADDR
and
.Dv RTM_DELADDR
messages use an
.Vt ifa_msghdr
header,
the
.Dv RTM_IFANNOUNCE
message uses an
.Vt if_announcemsghdr
header,
and all other messages use the
.Vt rt_msghdr
header.
.Pp
The metrics structure is:
.Bd -literal
struct rt_metrics {
u_long rmx_locks; /* Kernel must leave these values alone */
u_long rmx_mtu; /* MTU for this path */
u_long rmx_hopcount; /* max hops expected */
u_long rmx_expire; /* lifetime for route, e.g. redirect */
u_long rmx_recvpipe; /* inbound delay-bandwidth product */
u_long rmx_sendpipe; /* outbound delay-bandwidth product */
u_long rmx_ssthresh; /* outbound gateway buffer limit */
u_long rmx_rtt; /* estimated round trip time */
u_long rmx_rttvar; /* estimated rtt variance */
u_long rmx_pksent; /* packets sent using this route */
};
.Ed
.Pp
Only
.Va rmx_mtu , rmx_expire , rmx_pksent ,
and
.Va rmx_locks
are used by the kernel routing table.
All other values will be ignored when inserting them into the kernel and are
set to zero in routing messages sent by the kernel.
They are left for compatibility reasons with other systems.
.Pp
Flags include the values:
.Bd -literal
#define RTF_UP 0x1 /* route usable */
#define RTF_GATEWAY 0x2 /* destination is a gateway */
#define RTF_HOST 0x4 /* host entry (net otherwise) */
#define RTF_REJECT 0x8 /* host or net unreachable */
#define RTF_DYNAMIC 0x10 /* created dynamically (by redirect) */
#define RTF_MODIFIED 0x20 /* modified dynamically (by redirect) */
#define RTF_DONE 0x40 /* message confirmed */
#define RTF_MASK 0x80 /* subnet mask present */
#define RTF_CLONING 0x100 /* generate new routes on use */
#define RTF_XRESOLVE 0x200 /* external daemon resolves name */
#define RTF_LLINFO 0x400 /* generated by ARP or ESIS */
#define RTF_STATIC 0x800 /* manually added */
#define RTF_BLACKHOLE 0x1000 /* just discard pkts (during updates) */
#define RTF_PROTO2 0x4000 /* protocol specific routing flag */
#define RTF_PROTO1 0x8000 /* protocol specific routing flag */
#define RTF_CLONED 0x10000 /* this is a cloned route */
#define RTF_MPATH 0x40000 /* multipath route or operation */
.Ed
.Pp
Specifiers for metric values in
.Va rmx_locks
and
.Va rtm_inits
are:
.Bd -literal
#define RTV_MTU 0x1 /* init or lock _mtu */
#define RTV_HOPCOUNT 0x2 /* init or lock _hopcount */
#define RTV_EXPIRE 0x4 /* init or lock _hopcount */
#define RTV_RPIPE 0x8 /* init or lock _recvpipe */
#define RTV_SPIPE 0x10 /* init or lock _sendpipe */
#define RTV_SSTHRESH 0x20 /* init or lock _ssthresh */
#define RTV_RTT 0x40 /* init or lock _rtt */
#define RTV_RTTVAR 0x80 /* init or lock _rttvar */
.Ed
.Pp
Only
.Dv RTV_MTU
and
.Dv RTV_EXPIRE
should be used; all other flags are ignored.
.Pp
Specifiers for which addresses are present in the messages are:
.Bd -literal
#define RTA_DST 0x1 /* destination sockaddr present */
#define RTA_GATEWAY 0x2 /* gateway sockaddr present */
#define RTA_NETMASK 0x4 /* netmask sockaddr present */
#define RTA_GENMASK 0x8 /* cloning mask sockaddr present */
#define RTA_IFP 0x10 /* interface name sockaddr present */
#define RTA_IFA 0x20 /* interface addr sockaddr present */
#define RTA_AUTHOR 0x40 /* sockaddr for author of redirect */
#define RTA_BRD 0x80 /* for NEWADDR, bcast or p-p dest addr */
#define RTA_LABEL 0x400 /* route label present */
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr netstat 1 ,
.Xr socket 2 ,
.Xr sysctl 3 ,
.Xr mygate 5 ,
.Xr route 8
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Dv PF_ROUTE
protocol family first appeared in
.Bx 4.3 Reno .