Note that gated is a commercial routing product now, and remove

references to it's man page, which is almost never installed on a
FreeBSD system.  The information about using this command with gated
has been retained.  I have just made it clear that gated is not a part
of FreeBSD.

PR:		docs/51407
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility is used to query a RIP network routing daemon,
.Xr routed 8
or
.Xr gated 8 ,
utility is used to query a RIP network routing daemon, such as
.Xr routed 8 ,
for its routing table by sending a
.Em request
or
@ -46,15 +44,19 @@ uses the
.Em poll
command, an
undocumented extension to the RIP protocol supported by
.Xr gated 8 .
the commercial
.Li gated
routing product.
When querying
.Xr gated 8 ,
.Li gated ,
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
Poisoned Reverse, and because some versions of
.Li gated
do not answer the
.Em request
command.
.Xr Routed 8
@ -80,9 +82,9 @@ numeric and symbolic.
uses the
.Em poll
command to request full routing information from
.Xr gated 8 .
.Li gated .
This is an undocumented extension RIP protocol supported only by
.Xr gated 8 .
.Li gated .
.It Fl 1
queries using RIP version 1 instead of RIP version 2.
.It Fl w Ar timeout
@ -100,7 +102,7 @@ changes tracing, where
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
.Li gated
is likely to ignore these debugging requests.
.El
.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent-two
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dumps the daemon's routing table to the current tracefile.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr gated 8 ,
.Xr routed 8
.Rs
.%T Routing Information Protocol, RIPv1