HP-UX Reference (11i v1 00/12) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
STANDARD Printed by: Nora Chuang [nchuang] STANDARD
/build/1111/BRICK/man1m/naaagt.1m
________________________________________________________________
___ ___
r
ripquery(1M) ripquery(1M)
NAME
ripquery - query RIP gateways
SYNOPSIS
ripquery [-1][-2][-[a5] authkey][-n][-N dest[/mask]] [-p][-r][-v][-w time] gateway ...
DESCRIPTION
ripquery is used to request all routes known by a RIP gateway by sending a RIP request or POLL com-
mand. The routing information in any routing packets returned is displayed numerically and symbolically.
ripquery is intended to be used as a tool for debugging gateways, not for network management. SNMP
is the preferred protocol for network management.
ripquery by default uses the RIP POLL command, which is an undocumented extension to the RIP
specification supported by routed on SunOS 3.x and later and by gated 1.4 and later. The RIP POLL
command is preferred over the RIP REQUEST command because it is not subject to Split Horizon and/or
Poisoned Reverse. See the RIP RFC for more information.
Options
-1 Send the query as a version 1 packet.
-2 Send the query as a version 2 packet (default).
-[a5]authkey Specifies the authentication password to use for queries. If
-a specified, an authentication
type of SIMPLE will be used, if
-5 is specified, an authentication type of MD5 will be used;
otherwise the default is an authentication type of NONE. Authentication fields in incoming
packets will be displayed, but not validated.
-n Prevents the address of the responding host from being looked up to determine the sym-
bolic name.
-N dest[/mask]
Specifies that the query should be for the specified dest/mask instead of complete routing
table. The specification of the optional mask implies a version 2 query. Up to 23 requests
about specific destinations may be include in one packet.
-p Uses the RIP POLL command to request information from the routing table. This is the
default, but is an undocumented extension supported only by some versions of unOS 3.x
and later versions of
gated. If there is no response to the RIP POLL command, the RIP
REQUEST command is tried. gated responds to a POLL command with all the routes
learned via RIP.
-r Used the RIP REQUEST command to request information from the gateway’s routing
table. Unlike the RIP POLL command, all gateways should support the RIP REQUEST. If
there is no response to the RIP REQUEST command, the RIP POLL command is tried.
gated responds to a REQUEST command with all the routes he announces out the
specified interface. Due to limitations in the UDP interface, on systems based on BSD 4.3
Reno or earlier, REQUESTs respond about the interface used to route packets back to the
sender. This can be avoided by running ripquery on the host being queried.
-v Version information about ripquery is displayed before querying the gateways.
-w time Specifies the time in seconds to wait for the initial response from a gateway. The default
value is 5 seconds.
AUTHORS
Jeffrey C Honig.
SEE ALSO
gated(1M), gdc(1M), ospf_monitor(1M), GateD Documentation, GateD Configuration Guide.
BUGS
Some versions of Unix do not allow looking up the symbolic name of a subnet.
Section 1M714 1 HP-UX Release 11i: December 2000
___
___