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author | wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-09-16 16:51:32 +0000 |
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committer | wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-09-16 16:51:32 +0000 |
commit | 5ad8429e52c73cfc64a037d4edd40d167e9724be (patch) | |
tree | 4dcbff960fd22f912258326b776172a6e1313e2a /sbin/routed/rtquery/rtquery.8 | |
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Virgin import of new BSD/SGI routed. This update contains a number
of important bug fixes.
Obtained from: Vernon J. Schryver <vjs@mica.denver.sgi.com>
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diff --git a/sbin/routed/rtquery/rtquery.8 b/sbin/routed/rtquery/rtquery.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d77ca30 --- /dev/null +++ b/sbin/routed/rtquery/rtquery.8 @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +.Dd June 1, 1996 +.Dt RTQUERY 8 +.Os BSD 4.4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm rtquery +.Nd query routing daemons for their routing tables +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl np1 +.Op Fl w Ar timeout +.Op Fl r Ar addr +.Ar host ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Rtquery +is used to query a network routing daemon, +.Xr routed 8 +or +.Xr gated 8 , +for its routing table by sending a +.Em request +or +.Em poll +command. The routing information in any routing +.Em response +packets returned is displayed numerically and symbolically. +.Pp +.Em Rtquery +by default uses the +.Em request +command. +When the +.Ar -p +option is specified, +.Nm rtquery +uses the +.Em poll +command, an +undocumented extension to the RIP protocol supported by +.Xr gated 8 . +When querying gated, the +.Em poll +command is preferred over the +.I Request +command because the response is not subject to Split Horizon and/or +Poisoned Reverse, and because some versions of gated do not answer +the Request command. Routed does not answer the Poll command, but +recognizes Requests coming from rtquery and so answers completely. +.Pp +.Em Rtquery +is also used to turn tracing on or off in +.Em routed . +.Pp +Options supported by +.Nm rtquery : +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl n +Normally network and host numbers are displayed both symbolically +and numerically. +The +.Fl n +option displays only the numeric network and host numbers. +.It Fl p +Uses the +.Em Poll +command to request full routing information from +.Xr gated 8 , +This is an undocumented extension RIP protocol supported only by +.Xr gated 8 . +.It Fl 1 +query using RIP version 1 instead of RIP version 2. +.It Fl w Ar timeout +changes the delay for an answer from each host. +By default, each host is given 15 seconds to respond. +.It Fl r Ar addr +ask about the route to destination +.Em addr . +.It Fl t Ar op +change tracing, where +.Em op +is one of the following. +Requests from processes not running with UID 0 or on distant networks +are generally ignored by the daemon except for a message in the system log. +.El +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent-two +.It Em on=tracefile +turn tracing on into the specified file. That file must usually +have been specified when the daemon was started or be the same +as a fixed name, often +.Pa /etc/routed.trace . +.It Em more +increases the debugging level. +.It Em off +turns off tracing. +.It Em dump +dumps the daemon's routing table to the current tracefile. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr routed 8 , +.Xr gated 8 . +.br +RFC\ 1058 - Routing Information Protocol, RIPv1 +.br +RFC\ 1723 - Routing Information Protocol, RIPv2 |