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The +.Fn rtalloc +family of routines is used by protocols to query this structure for a +route corresponding to a particular end-node address, and to cause +certain protocol\- and interface-specific actions to take place. +.\" XXX - -mdoc should contain a standard request for getting em and + \" en dashes. +.Pp +When a route with the flag +.Dv RTF_CLONING +or +.Dv RTF_PRCLONING +is retrieved, and the action of those flags is not masked, the +.Nm rtalloc +facility automatically generates a new route using information in the +old route as a template, and in the case of +.Dv RTF_CLONING , +sends an +.Dv RTM_RESOLVE +message to the appropriate interface-address route-management routine +.Pq Fn ifa->ifa_rtrequest . +.Dv RTF_PRCLONING +routes are assumed to be managed by the protcol family and no +resolution requests are made, but all routes generated by the cloning +process retain a reference to the route from which they were +generated. +If the +.Dv RTF_XRESOLVE +flag is set, then the +.Dv RTM_RESOLVE +message is sent instead on the +.Xr route 4 +socket interface, requesting that an external program resolve the +address in question and modify the route appropriately. +.Pp +The default interface is +.Fn rtalloc . +Its only argument is +.Ar ro , +a pointer to a +.Dq Li "struct route" , +which is defined as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +struct route { + struct sockaddr ro_dst; + struct rtentry *ro_rt; +}; +.Ed +Thus, this function can only be used for address families which are +smaller than the default +.Dq Li "struct sockaddr" . +Before calling +.Fn rtalloc +for the first time, callers should ensure that unused bits of the +structure are set to zero. On subsequent calls, +.Fn rtalloc +returns without performing a lookup if +.Ar ro->ro_rt +is non-null and the +.Dv RTF_UP +flag is set in the route's +.Li rt_flags +field. +.Pp +The +.Fn rtalloc_ign +interface can be used when the default actions of +.Fn rtalloc +in the presence of the +.Dv RTF_CLONING +and +.Dv RTF_PRCLONING +flags are undesired. The +.Ar ro +argument is the same as +.Fn rtalloc , +but there is additionally a +.Ar flags +argument, which lists the flags in the route which are to be +.Em ignored +(ordinarily, one or both of +.Dv RTF_CLONING +or +.Dv RTF_PRCLONING ) . +.Pp +The +.Fn rtalloc1 +function is the most general form of +.Fn rtalloc +(and both of the other forms are implemented as calls to rtalloc1). +It does not use the +.Dq Li "struct route" , +and is therefore suitable for address families which require more +space than is in a traditional +.Dq Li "struct sockaddr" . +Instead, it takes a +.Dq Li "struct sockaddr *" +directly as the +.Ar sa +argument. The second argument, +.Ar report , +controls whether +.Dv RTM_RESOLVE +requests are sent to the lower layers when an +.Dv RTF_CLONING +or +.Dv RTF_PRCLONING +route is cloned. Ordinarily a value of one should be passed, except +in the processing of those lower layers which use the cloning +facility. +The third argument, +.Ar flags , +is a set of flags to ignore, as in +.Fn rtalloc_ign . +.Sh RETURN VALUES +The +.Fn rtalloc +and +.Fn rtalloc_ign +functions do not return a value. The +.Fn rtalloc1 +function returns a pointer to a routing-table entry if it succeeds, +otherwise a null pointer. Lack of a route should in most cases be +translated to the +.Xr errno 2 +value +.Er EHOSTUNREACH . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr route 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm rtalloc +facility first appeared in +.Bx 4.2 , +although with much different internals. The +.Fn rtalloc_ign +function and the +.Ar flags +argument to +.Fn rtalloc1 +first appeared in +.Fx 2.0 . +.Sh AUTHOR +This manual page was written by Garrett Wollman, as were the changes +to implement +.Dv RTF_PRCLONING +and the +.Fn rtalloc_ign +function and the +.Ar flags +argument to +.Fn rtalloc1 . |