From 64722c9852a8ea4bdc7db0304351850a8106300e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Machek Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:27:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added brief description of client features. Grammar really is not good place to write help from, so please check this. --- doc/bird.sgml | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml index b4b4bbae..9e364f66 100644 --- a/doc/bird.sgml +++ b/doc/bird.sgml @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ protocol rip { passwords { password " Specifies passwords to be used with this protocol. Passive is time from which the password is not used for sending, but it is recognized on reception. is dd-mm-yy HH:MM:SS. interface " Specifies which interfaces this protocol is active on, and allows you to set options on @@ -309,6 +309,24 @@ codes. You do not necessarily need to use BIRDC to talk to BIRD, your own application could do that, too -- format of communication between BIRD and BIRDC is stable (see programmer's documentation). +

Here is very brief list of supported functions: + + + dump resources|sockets|interfaces|neighbors|attributs|routes|protocols + Send requested information to a standard logging facility. + + show status|protocols [all]|interfaces [summary]|symbols + Show requested information on client. + + show route [ + Show contents of the routing table, possibly filtered by the filter. If you put on the line, only routes to given destination are shown. You can also make list more verbose by using enable|disable|restart + Enable/disable or restart given protocol. + + debug Filters @@ -513,14 +531,12 @@ attributes just like it accesses variables. Attempt to access undefined attribute result in a runtime error; you can check if an attribute is defined using the defined( attribute ) operator. - - Network the route is talking about. Read-only. (See the section about routing tables.) - Address scope of the network () + Address scope of the network ( Preference of the route. (See section about routing tables.) @@ -877,8 +893,7 @@ protocol kernel { # Secondary routing table Introduction

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a quite complex interior gateway -protocol. The current IPv4 version (OSPFv2) is defined in RFC 2328 -. It's a link +protocol. The current IPv4 version (OSPFv2) is defined in RFC 2328. It's a link state (a.k.a. shortest path first) protocol -- Each router maintains a database describing the autonomous system's topology. Each participating router has an identical copy of the database and all routers run the same algorithm @@ -1188,7 +1203,7 @@ RIP) and all routers know that network is unreachable. RIP tries to minimize sit counting to infinity is necessary, because it is slow. Due to infinity being 16, you can't use RIP on networks where maximal distance is higher than 15 hosts. You can read more about rip at . Both IPv4 -(RFC ????) +(RFC 1723) and IPv6 (RFC 2080) versions of RIP are supported by BIRD, historical RIPv1 (RFC 1058)is not currently supported. RIPv4 md5 authentication (RFC 2082) is supported. @@ -1352,4 +1367,5 @@ LocalWords: EGP misconfigurations keepalive pref aggr aggregator BIRD's RTC LocalWords: OS'es AS's multicast nolisten misconfigured UID blackhole MRTD LocalWords: uninstalls ethernets IP binutils ANYCAST anycast dest RTD ICMP rfc LocalWords: compat multicasts nonbroadcast pointopoint +LocalWords: Perl SIGHUP dd mm yy HH MM SS EXT IA UNICAST multihop Discriminator txt -->