.\" $NetBSD: rtquery.8,v 1.17 2003/02/25 10:35:10 wiz Exp $ .\" .Dd June 1, 1996 .Dt RTQUERY 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm rtquery .Nd query routing daemons for their routing tables .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl np1 .Op Fl w Ar timeout .Op Fl r Ar addr .Op Fl a Ar secret .Ar host ... .Nm .Op Fl t Ar op .Ar host ... .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is used to query a RIP network routing daemon, .Xr routed 8 or .Xr gated 8 , for its routing table by sending a .Em request or .Em poll command. The routing information in any routing .Em response packets returned is displayed numerically and symbolically. .Pp .Nm by default uses the .Em request command. When the .Fl p option is specified, .Nm uses the .Em poll command, an undocumented extension to the RIP protocol supported by .Xr gated 8 . When querying .Xr gated 8 , the .Em poll command is preferred over the .Em 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 .Em request command. .Xr routed 8 does not answer the .Em poll command, but recognizes .Em requests coming from .Nm and so answers completely. .Pp .Nm is also used to turn tracing on or off in .Xr routed 8 . .Pp The following options are available: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl n displays only the numeric network and host numbers instead of both numeric and symbolic. .It Fl p uses the .Em poll command to request full routing information from .Xr gated 8 . This is an undocumented extension RIP protocol supported only by .Xr gated 8 . .It Fl 1 queries using RIP version 1 instead of RIP version 2. .It Fl w Ar timeout changes the delay for an answer from each host. By default, each host is given 15 seconds to respond. .It Fl r Ar addr asks about the route to destination .Em addr . .It Fl a Ar passwd=XXX .It Fl a Ar md5_passwd=XXX|KeyID causes the query to be sent with the indicated cleartext or MD5 password. .It Fl t Ar op changes tracing, where .Em op is one of the following. 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. .Xr gated 8 is likely to ignore these debugging requests. .El .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent-two .It Em on=tracefile turns tracing on into the specified file. That file must usually have been specified when the daemon was started or be the same as a fixed name, often .Pa /etc/routed.trace . .It Em more increases the debugging level. .It Em off turns off tracing. .It Em dump dumps the daemon's routing table to the current tracefile. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr gated 8 , .Xr routed 8 .br RFC\ 1058 - Routing Information Protocol, RIPv1 .br RFC\ 1723 - Routing Information Protocol, RIPv2