RIP6ADMIN(8)

NAME
rip6admin - administrative utility for network routing daemon, hroute6d

SYNOPSIS
rip6admin command

DESCRIPTION
Rip6admin is invoked by system administrator to control the hroute6d(8).

The rip6admin utility provides 7 commands:

restart
    Make hroute6d to read configuration file hroute6d.conf(5) and start again.
stop
    Clear kernel routing table and kill the hroute6d daemon.
trace
    The hroute6d daemon can trace the incoming and outgoing packets based on the value of a flag. The flag can be toggled between on/off using this command.
reset
    Hroute6d maintains statistics for number of bad packets, queries received etc. These counters can be reset to zero using this command.
stat
    Display current statistics counters.
table prefix prefixlen
    Display hroute6d's local routing information.
start
    Start hroute6d daemon. Do not use when hroute6d is running.

The table command has the syntax

rip6admin table prefix prefixlen

Routing Informations that match prefix prefixlen are displayed. If no routes matches, nothing is displayed. To see 'default' route, type

rip6admin table default.

To see all informations, type

rip6admin table:: 0

(0 prefixlen matches all route informations).

The counters maintained by hroute6d are
•   global route changes counter
•   received valid queries counter
•   received bad packets counter
•   received bad RTEs counter
•   sent updates counter

SEE ALSO
rip6query(8), hroute6d(8)