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

NAME

       dnroute - DECnet Routing Daemon

SYNOPSIS

       dnroute [options]
       Options:
       [-dvV2Dtnhr]

DESCRIPTION

       dnroute is a daemon that manages the DECnet routing tables to provide a simple
	but probably useful routing policy.
       dnroute	listens  for  incoming	routing  messages  and	adds routes in the kernel for non-local areas that it sees. Routes will be modifed
       according to these messages so that the lowest cost route that is up will always be used. Routes to locally accessible nodes (it  those	in
       the  neighbour  table)  will  also  be  added.	If you want to keep manual control of the route to a particular area, then add a line into
       dnroute.conf. eg:
       manual 26
       will disable dnroute's setting of routing tables for that area. dnetinfo will still show the route that would have been set with (M) on the
       line to show it has been overidden.
       To  implement  its  routing  policies  dnroute  assumes	that  all  interfaces  on the system have a cost of 4. To change this add lines in
       /etc/dnroute.conf for each of the interfaces you need to change. eg
       eth0 6
       eth1 8
       tap0 10
       A script called dnetinfo is provided that gets the routing information from dnroute and displays it on stdout in a format  similar  to  the
       VMS command SHOW NET/OLD.

OPTIONS

       -d     Don't fork and run the background. Use this for debugging.

       -v     Verbose. Log route changes to syslog.

       -D     Debug log. Writes debugging information to stderr. Only useful with -d.

       -h -?  Displays help for using the command.

       -r     Send DECnet routing messages showing the state of local nodes.

       -2     Send DECnet level 2 (area) routing messages. Implies -r.

       -t <secs>
	      Timer to send routing messages on. Defaults to 15 seconds.

       -n     Do not set up routes or send routing messages, just monitor the network. Useful for testing.

       -V     Show the version of dnroute.

SEE ALSO

       dnetd.conf(5), ip(8)

DECnet utilities						   March 30 2006							DNROUTE(8)