ripquery(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       ripquery(8)

NAME

       ripquery - Queries RIP gateways

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/ripquery [-1] [-2] [-[a5] authkey] [-n]
	  [-p] [-r] [-v] [-w time] gateway ...

FLAGS

       Sends  the query as a version 1 packet.	Sends the query as a version 2 packet (default).  Specifies the authentication password to use for
       queries.  If -a specified, an authentication type of SIMPLE will be used, if -5 is specified, an authentication type of MD5 will  be  used,
       otherwise  the  default is an authentication type of NONE.  Authentication fields in incoming packets will be displayed, but not validated.
       Prevents the address of the responding host from being looked up to determine the symbolic name.  Uses the  RIP	POLL  command  to  request
       information  from  the  routing	table.	 This is the default.  If there is no response to the RIP POLL command, the RIP REQUEST command is
       tried.  The gated daemon responds to a POLL command with all the routes learned through RIP.  Used  the	RIP  REQUEST  command  to  request
       information  from  the  gateway's routing table.  Unlike the RIP POLL command, all gateways should support the RIP REQUEST.  If there is no
       response to the RIP REQUEST command, the RIP POLL command is tried.  The gated daemon responds to a REQUEST command with all the routes	he
       announces  out the specified interface.	Because of limitations in the UDP interface, on systems based on BSD 4.3 Reno or earlier, REQUESTs
       respond about the interface used to route packets back to the sender.  This can be avoided by running ripquery on the host  being  queried.
       Displays  version  information about ripquery before querying the gateways.  Specifies the time in seconds to wait for the initial response
       from a gateway.	The default value is 5 seconds.

DESCRIPTION

       The ripquery command is used to request all routes known by a RIP gateway by sending a RIP request or POLL command.  The  routing  informa-
       tion  in any routing packets returned is displayed numerically and symbolically.  The ripquery command is intended to be used as a tool for
       debugging gateways, not for network management.	SNMP is the preferred protocol for network management.

       The ripquery command by default uses the RIP POLL command, which is an undocumented extension to the RIP specification supported by  routed
       on  SunOS  3.x and later and by gated 1.4 and later.  The RIP POLL command is preferred over the RIP REQUEST command because it is not sub-
       ject to Split Horizon or Poisoned Reverse.  See the RIP RFC for more information.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: gated(8), gdc(8), ospf_monitor(8), routed(8) delim off

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