1.\" $Revision: 2.27 $ 2.\" $FreeBSD$ 3.\" 4.Dd June 1, 1996 5.Dt RTQUERY 8 6.Os 7.Sh NAME 8.Nm rtquery 9.Nd query routing daemons for their routing tables 10.Sh SYNOPSIS 11.Nm 12.Op Fl np1 13.Op Fl w Ar timeout 14.Op Fl r Ar addr 15.Op Fl a Ar secret 16.Ar host ... 17.Nm 18.Op Fl t Ar op 19.Ar host ... 20.Sh DESCRIPTION 21The 22.Nm 23utility is used to query a RIP network routing daemon, such as 24.Xr routed 8 , 25for its routing table by sending a 26.Em request 27or 28.Em poll 29command. 30The routing information in any routing 31.Em response 32packets returned is displayed numerically and symbolically. 33.Pp 34The 35.Nm 36utility by default uses the 37.Em request 38command. 39When the 40.Fl p 41option is specified, 42.Nm 43uses the 44.Em poll 45command, an 46undocumented extension to the RIP protocol supported by 47the commercial 48.Nm gated 49routing product. 50When querying 51.Nm gated , 52the 53.Em poll 54command is preferred over the 55.Em request 56command because the response is not subject to Split Horizon and/or 57Poisoned Reverse, and because some versions of 58.Nm gated 59do not answer the 60.Em request 61command. 62The 63.Xr routed 8 64utility does not answer the 65.Em poll 66command, but recognizes 67.Em requests 68coming from 69.Nm 70and so answers completely. 71.Pp 72The 73.Nm 74utility is also used to turn tracing on or off in 75.Xr routed 8 . 76.Pp 77The following options are available: 78.Bl -tag -width indent 79.It Fl n 80displays only the numeric network and host numbers instead of both 81numeric and symbolic. 82.It Fl p 83uses the 84.Em poll 85command to request full routing information from 86.Nm gated . 87This is an undocumented extension RIP protocol supported only by 88.Nm gated . 89.It Fl 1 90queries using RIP version 1 instead of RIP version 2. 91.It Fl w Ar timeout 92changes the delay for an answer from each host. 93By default, each host is given 15 seconds to respond. 94.It Fl r Ar addr 95asks about the route to destination 96.Em addr . 97.It Fl a Ar passwd=XXX 98.It Fl a Ar md5_passwd=XXX|KeyID 99causes the query to be sent with the indicated cleartext or MD5 password. 100.It Fl t Ar op 101changes tracing, where 102.Em op 103is one of the following. 104Requests from processes not running with UID 0 or on distant networks 105are generally ignored by the daemon except for a message in the system log. 106.Nm gated 107is likely to ignore these debugging requests. 108.El 109.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent-two 110.It Em on=tracefile 111turns tracing on into the specified file. 112That file must usually have been specified when the daemon was 113started or be the same as a fixed name, often 114.Pa /etc/routed.trace . 115.It Em more 116increases the debugging level. 117.It Em off 118turns off tracing. 119.It Em dump 120dumps the daemon's routing table to the current tracefile. 121.El 122.Sh SEE ALSO 123.Xr routed 8 124.Rs 125.%T Routing Information Protocol, RIPv1 126.%O RFC1058 127.Re 128.Rs 129.%T Routing Information Protocol, RIPv2 130.%O RFC1723 131.Re 132