The
utility is used to query a RIP network routing daemon, such as
routed(8),
for its routing table by sending a
request
or
poll
command.
The routing information in any routing
response
packets returned is displayed numerically and symbolically.
The
utility by default uses the
request
command.
When the
-p
option is specified,
uses the
poll
command, an
undocumented extension to the RIP protocol supported by
the commercial
gated
routing product.
When querying
gated
the
poll
command is preferred over the
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.
The
routed(8)
utility does not answer the
poll
command, but recognizes
requests
coming from
and so answers completely.
The
utility is also used to turn tracing on or off in
routed(8).
The following options are available:
-n
displays only the numeric network and host numbers instead of both
numeric and symbolic.
-p
uses the
poll
command to request full routing information from
gated
This is an undocumented extension RIP protocol supported only by
gated
-1
queries using RIP version 1 instead of RIP version 2.
-w timeout
changes the delay for an answer from each host.
By default, each host is given 15 seconds to respond.
-r addr
asks about the route to destination
addr
-a passwd=XXX
-a md5_passwd=XXX|KeyID
causes the query to be sent with the indicated cleartext or MD5 password.
-t op
changes tracing, where
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.
gated
is likely to ignore these debugging requests.
on=tracefile
turns 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
/etc/routed.trace
more
increases the debugging level.
off
turns off tracing.
dump
dumps the daemon's routing table to the current tracefile.
