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1.\"	$NetBSD: rtquery.8,v 1.3 1996/09/24 16:24:25 christos Exp $
2.\"
3.Dd June 1, 1996
4.Dt RTQUERY 8
5.Os BSD 4.4
6.Sh NAME
7.Nm rtquery
8.Nd query routing daemons for their routing tables
9.Sh SYNOPSIS
10.Nm
11.Op Fl np1
12.Op Fl w Ar timeout
13.Op Fl r Ar addr
14.Ar host ...
15.Sh DESCRIPTION
16.Nm Rtquery
17is used to query a network routing daemon,
18.Xr routed 8
19or
20.Xr gated 8 ,
21for its routing table by sending a
22.Em request
23or
24.Em poll
25command.  The routing information in any routing
26.Em response
27packets returned is displayed numerically and symbolically.
28.Pp
29.Em Rtquery
30by default uses the
31.Em request
32command.
33When the
34.Ar -p
35option is specified,
36.Nm rtquery
37uses the
38.Em poll
39command, an
40undocumented extension to the RIP protocol supported by
41.Xr gated 8 .
42When querying gated, the
43.Em poll
44command is preferred over the
45.I Request
46command because the response is not subject to Split Horizon and/or
47Poisoned Reverse, and because some versions of gated do not answer
48the Request command.  Routed does not answer the Poll command, but
49recognizes Requests coming from rtquery and so answers completely.
50.Pp
51.Em Rtquery
52is also used to turn tracing on or off in
53.Em routed .
54.Pp
55Options supported by
56.Nm rtquery :
57.Bl -tag -width Ds
58.It Fl n
59Normally network and host numbers are displayed both symbolically
60and numerically.
61The
62.Fl n
63option displays only the numeric network and host numbers.
64.It Fl p
65Uses the
66.Em Poll
67command to request full routing information from
68.Xr gated 8 ,
69This is an undocumented extension RIP protocol supported only by
70.Xr gated 8 .
71.It Fl 1
72query using RIP version 1 instead of RIP version 2.
73.It Fl w Ar timeout
74changes the delay for an answer from each host.
75By default, each host is given 15 seconds to respond.
76.It Fl r Ar addr
77ask about the route to destination
78.Em addr .
79.It Fl t Ar op
80change tracing, where
81.Em op
82is one of the following.
83Requests from processes not running with UID 0 or on distant networks
84are generally ignored by the daemon except for a message in the system log.
85.El
86.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent-two
87.It Em on=tracefile
88turn tracing on into the specified file.  That file must usually
89have been specified when the daemon was started or be the same
90as a fixed name, often
91.Pa /etc/routed.trace .
92.It Em more
93increases the debugging level.
94.It Em off
95turns off tracing.
96.It Em dump
97dumps the daemon's routing table to the current tracefile.
98.El
99.Sh SEE ALSO
100.Xr routed 8 ,
101.Xr gated 8 .
102.br
103RFC\ 1058 - Routing Information Protocol, RIPv1
104.br
105RFC\ 1723 - Routing Information Protocol, RIPv2
106