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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: MORE ON TOOLS TO FIND ROUTING TABLES OF REMOTE HOSTS
- Keywords: ripquery, rtquery
- Message-ID: <uh6b39s@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 05:21:09 GMT
- References: <C0EtFo.FCq@exicom.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 30
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- In article <C0EtFo.FCq@exicom.OZ.AU>, ray@exicom.OZ.AU (ray) writes:
- > many thanks to all those people who replied to my last post, when i asked how
- > would i perform the equivalent of a remote "netstat -rn" on
- > arbitrary internet hosts.
- >
- > Most people suggested SNMP. However, wouldn't this limit me to
- > querying hosts running SNMP?
- >
- > I was hoping that there would be a solution which only required
- > that the gateway in question be running some routing daemon
- > talking RIP (e.g. gated), which is a more common property of gateways
- > than SNMP .
- >
- > I vaguely remember hearing of a program called ripquery, but i can't
- > find any info on it. Has anyone heard of such a thing ; would this
- > do the job I just described in the previous paragraph?
-
-
-
- There is `rtquery` source in the standard 4.3BSD distribution (I think
- in the tools subdirectory of the routed subdirectory), and binary
- shipped on some (at least one--guess which) vendors' workstations.
-
- Rtquery works by sending out mostly ordinary RIP requests.
- It obviously doesn't work if you are not using RIP.
- It also does not work if the remote machine is picky, as cisco routers
- seem to be.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-