rtquery.8 revision 1.1
1 .Dd June 1, 1996 2 .Dt RTQUERY 8 3 .Os BSD 4.4 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm rtquery 6 .Nd query routing daemons for their routing tables 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl np1 10 .Op Fl w Ar timeout 11 .Op Fl r Ar addr 12 .Ar host ... 13 .Sh DESCRIPTION 14 .Nm Rtquery 15 is used to query a network routing daemon, 16 .Xr routed 8 17 or 18 .Xr gated 8 , 19 for its routing table by sending a 20 .Em request 21 or 22 .Em poll 23 command. The routing information in any routing 24 .Em response 25 packets returned is displayed numerically and symbolically. 26 .Pp 27 .Em Rtquery 28 by default uses the 29 .Em request 30 command. 31 When the 32 .Ar -p 33 option is specified, 34 .Nm rtquery 35 uses the 36 .Em poll 37 command, an 38 undocumented extension to the RIP protocol supported by 39 .Xr gated 8 . 40 When querying gated, the 41 .Em poll 42 command is preferred over the 43 .I Request 44 command because the response is not subject to Split Horizon and/or 45 Poisoned Reverse, and because some versions of gated do not answer 46 the Request command. Routed does not answer the Poll command, but 47 recognizes Requests coming from rtquery and so answers completely. 48 .Pp 49 .Em Rtquery 50 is also used to turn tracing on or off in 51 .Em routed . 52 .Pp 53 Options supported by 54 .Nm rtquery : 55 .Bl -tag -width Ds 56 .It Fl n 57 Normally network and host numbers are displayed both symbolically 58 and numerically. 59 The 60 .Fl n 61 option displays only the numeric network and host numbers. 62 .It Fl p 63 Uses the 64 .Em Poll 65 command to request full routing information from 66 .Xr gated 8 , 67 This is an undocumented extension RIP protocol supported only by 68 .Xr gated 8 . 69 .It Fl 1 70 query using RIP version 1 instead of RIP version 2. 71 .It Fl w Ar timeout 72 changes the delay for an answer from each host. 73 By default, each host is given 15 seconds to respond. 74 .It Fl r Ar addr 75 ask about the route to destination 76 .Em addr . 77 .It Fl t Ar op 78 change tracing, where 79 .Em op 80 is one of the following. 81 Requests from processes not running with UID 0 or on distant networks 82 are generally ignored. 83 .El 84 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent-two 85 .It Em on=filename 86 turn tracing on into the specified file. That file must usually 87 have been specified when the daemon was started or be the same 88 as a fixed name, often 89 .Pa /tmp/routed.log . 90 .It Em more 91 increases the debugging level. 92 .It Em off 93 turns off tracing. 94 .El 95 .Sh SEE ALSO 96 .Xr routed 8 , 97 .Xr gated 8 . 98 .br 99 RFC\ 1058 - Routing Information Protocol, RIPv1 100 .br 101 RFC\ 1723 - Routing Information Protocol, RIPv2 102
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