NAME

     setfib — set the default FIB (routing table) for the calling process

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/socket.h>

     int
     setfib(int fib);

DESCRIPTION

     The setfib() system call sets the associated fib for all sockets opened subsequent to the
     call, to be that of the argument fib.  The fib argument must be greater than or equal to 0
     and less than the current system maximum which may be retrieved by the net.fibs sysctl.  The
     system maximum is set in the kernel configuration file with

           options ROUTETABLES=N

     or in /boot/loader.conf with

           net.fibs="N"

     where N is an integer.  This maximum is capped at 65536 due to the implementation storing
     the fib number in a 16-bit field in the mbuf(9) packet header, however it is not suggested
     that one use such a large number as memory is allocated for every FIB regardless of whether
     it is used, and there are places where all FIBs are iterated over.

     The default fib of the process will be applied to all protocol families that support
     multiple fibs, and ignored by those that do not.  The default fib for a process may be
     overridden for a socket with the use of the SO_SETFIB socket option.

RETURN VALUES

     The setfib() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned
     and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

     The setfib() system call will fail and no action will be taken and return EINVAL if the fib
     argument is greater than the current system maximum.

SEE ALSO

     setfib(1), setsockopt(2)

STANDARDS

     The setfib() system call is a FreeBSD extension however similar extensions have been added
     to many other UNIX style kernels.

HISTORY

     The setfib() function appeared in FreeBSD 7.1.