Re: no getkerninfo() man page (docs/12220)
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:59:00PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: getkerninfo() is depreciated, we use sysctl() instead. In fact, most of the information provided by getkerninfo() is implemented in terms of sysctl(). snip The route(4) manpage says: User processes can obtain information about the routing entry to a spe- cific destination by using a RTM_GET message, or by reading the /dev/kmem device, or by issuing a getkerninfo(2) system call. IMHO, the above sentence should probably be altered by replacing the first comma with a period, and throwing away the rest of it. Sounds fair enough. I'll allow 24 hours for objections, and then commit based on that, OK? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in 37514...@cs.colorado.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: no getkerninfo() man page (docs/12220)
In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: -hackers, As docs/12220 points out; We want to extract routing information by specifying a particular destination IP address. The man page on Route and Rtentry mention that this information can be acquired using getkerninfo command. But there is no such man page. Is it possible to get the information as how to use this command. Or if there is any other method of acquiring this information. Can anyone oblige with a getkerninfo() man page? getkerninfo() is depreciated, we use sysctl() instead. In fact, most of the information provided by getkerninfo() is implemented in terms of sysctl(). At the moment, sysctl() will only provide a dump of all routes, there doesn't appear be a way to limit the output to a specific address. In order to get a specific route, you'd have to query the routing socket directly with RTM_GET, this is documented in the route(4) manpage. The route(4) manpage says: User processes can obtain information about the routing entry to a spe- cific destination by using a RTM_GET message, or by reading the /dev/kmem device, or by issuing a getkerninfo(2) system call. IMHO, the above sentence should probably be altered by replacing the first comma with a period, and throwing away the rest of it. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: no getkerninfo() man page (docs/12220)
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:59:00PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: getkerninfo() is depreciated, we use sysctl() instead. In fact, most of the information provided by getkerninfo() is implemented in terms of sysctl(). snip The route(4) manpage says: User processes can obtain information about the routing entry to a spe- cific destination by using a RTM_GET message, or by reading the /dev/kmem device, or by issuing a getkerninfo(2) system call. IMHO, the above sentence should probably be altered by replacing the first comma with a period, and throwing away the rest of it. Sounds fair enough. I'll allow 24 hours for objections, and then commit based on that, OK? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
no getkerninfo() man page (docs/12220)
-hackers, As docs/12220 points out; We want to extract routing information by specifying a particular destination IP address. The man page on Route and Rtentry mention that this information can be acquired using getkerninfo command. But there is no such man page. Is it possible to get the information as how to use this command. Or if there is any other method of acquiring this information. Can anyone oblige with a getkerninfo() man page? Cheers, N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in 37514...@cs.colorado.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: no getkerninfo() man page (docs/12220)
In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/19990804165905.a16...@kilt.nothing-going-on.org you write: -hackers, As docs/12220 points out; We want to extract routing information by specifying a particular destination IP address. The man page on Route and Rtentry mention that this information can be acquired using getkerninfo command. But there is no such man page. Is it possible to get the information as how to use this command. Or if there is any other method of acquiring this information. Can anyone oblige with a getkerninfo() man page? getkerninfo() is depreciated, we use sysctl() instead. In fact, most of the information provided by getkerninfo() is implemented in terms of sysctl(). At the moment, sysctl() will only provide a dump of all routes, there doesn't appear be a way to limit the output to a specific address. In order to get a specific route, you'd have to query the routing socket directly with RTM_GET, this is documented in the route(4) manpage. The route(4) manpage says: User processes can obtain information about the routing entry to a spe- cific destination by using a RTM_GET message, or by reading the /dev/kmem device, or by issuing a getkerninfo(2) system call. IMHO, the above sentence should probably be altered by replacing the first comma with a period, and throwing away the rest of it. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
