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.

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.Sh DESCRIPTION .Sh DESCRIPTION
The The
.Nm .Nm
utility is used to query a RIP network routing daemon, utility is used to query a RIP network routing daemon, such as
.Xr routed 8 .Xr routed 8 ,
or
.Xr gated 8 ,
for its routing table by sending a for its routing table by sending a
.Em request .Em request
or or
@ -46,15 +44,19 @@ uses the
.Em poll .Em poll
command, an command, an
undocumented extension to the RIP protocol supported by undocumented extension to the RIP protocol supported by
.Xr gated 8 . the commercial
.Li gated
routing product.
When querying When querying
.Xr gated 8 , .Li gated ,
the the
.Em poll .Em poll
command is preferred over the command is preferred over the
.Em request .Em request
command because the response is not subject to Split Horizon and/or 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 .Em request
command. command.
.Xr Routed 8 .Xr Routed 8
@ -80,9 +82,9 @@ numeric and symbolic.
uses the uses the
.Em poll .Em poll
command to request full routing information from command to request full routing information from
.Xr gated 8 . .Li gated .
This is an undocumented extension RIP protocol supported only by This is an undocumented extension RIP protocol supported only by
.Xr gated 8 . .Li gated .
.It Fl 1 .It Fl 1
queries using RIP version 1 instead of RIP version 2. queries using RIP version 1 instead of RIP version 2.
.It Fl w Ar timeout .It Fl w Ar timeout
@ -100,7 +102,7 @@ changes tracing, where
is one of the following. is one of the following.
Requests from processes not running with UID 0 or on distant networks 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. 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. is likely to ignore these debugging requests.
.El .El
.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent-two .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent-two
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dumps the daemon's routing table to the current tracefile. dumps the daemon's routing table to the current tracefile.
.El .El
.Sh SEE ALSO .Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr gated 8 ,
.Xr routed 8 .Xr routed 8
.Rs .Rs
.%T Routing Information Protocol, RIPv1 .%T Routing Information Protocol, RIPv1