Debarshi Ray wrote:
...
I was going through the FreeBSD and NetBSD documentation and the
FreeBSD sources of netstat and route. I was suprised to see that while
NetBSD's route implementation has a 'show' command, FreeBSD does not
offer any such thing. Moreover it seems that one can not read the
entire routing table using the PF_ROUTE sockets and RTM_GET returns
information pertaining to only one destination. This suprised me
because one can do such a thing with the Linux kernel's RTNETLINK.
Is there a reason why this is so? Or is reading from /dev/kmem the
only way to get a dump of the routing tables?
You want 'netstat -rn' to dump them, this is a very common command which
should be present in a number of online resources on using and
administering FreeBSD so I am somewhat surprised that you didn't find it.
P.S. Look in the sysctl tree if you need to snapshot the kernel IP
forwarding tables. You can use kmem, but it is generally frowned upon
unless you're working from core dumps -- kernels can be built without
kmem support, or kmem locked down, etc.
cheers
BMS
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