rtquery(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       rtquery(1M)

NAME

       rtquery - query routing daemons for their routing tables

SYNOPSIS

       rtquery [-np1] [-w timeout] [-r addr] [-a secret] host...

       rtquery [-t operation] host...

DESCRIPTION

       The  rtquery  command  is used to query a RIP network routing daemon, in.routed(1M) or GateD, 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.

       By default, rtquery uses the request command. When the -p option is specified, rtquery uses the poll command, an undocumented extension	to
       the  RIP  protocol  supported by GateD. 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. in.routed  does
       not answer the poll command, but recognizes requests coming from rtquery and so answers completely.

       The rtquery command is also used to turn tracing on or off in in.routed.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -a passwd=XXX		  Causes the query to be sent with the indicated cleartext or MD5 password.
       -a md5_passwd=XXX|KeyID

       -n			  Displays only the numeric network and host addresses instead of both numeric and symbolic names.

       -p			  Uses the poll command to request full routing information from GateD. This is an undocumented extension RIP pro-
				  tocol supported only by GateD.

       -r addr			  Asks about the route to destination addr.

       -t operation		  Changes tracing, where operation is one of the actions listed below. 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, directing tracing into the specified file. That file must have been  specified
						  when the daemon was started or have the name, /var/log/in.routed.trace.

				  more		  Increases the debugging level.

				  off		  Turns off tracing.

				  dump		  Dumps the daemon's routing table to the current trace file.

       -w timeout		  Changes the delay for an answer from each host. By default, each host is given 15 seconds to respond.

       -1			  Queries using RIP version 1 instead of RIP version 2.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     Successful completion.

       >0    An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWroute 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       in.routed(1M),  route(1M), gateways(4), attributes(5), icmp(7P), inet(7P), udp(7P)

       Routing Information Protocol, RIPv1, RFC 1058

       Routing Information Protocol, RIPv2, RFC 2453, STD 0056

SunOS 5.11							    24 Apr 2002 						       rtquery(1M)