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From: matt@eecs.nwu.edu (Matt Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Looking for utility to monitor RIP packets
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Date: 29 Oct 90 17:37:00 GMT
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I am looking for a UNIX utility that will listen for all the RIP
packets on a network and display their contents.  I am essentially
trying to duplicate the output of a cisco router with RIP debugging
turned on.  The output looks something like:

Received RIP update from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:
  network yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy in n hops
  network zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz in m hops
  ...

This would be really handy on a large network with no ciscos.  I know
that gated has a debugging mode, but it doesn't provide quite the
information that I am looking for.

If anyone knows of a utility to do something like this, I would be
interested to hear about it.  If I can't find one, I'm going to write
it myself.  Of course, if it has already been written, then I'm not
going to bother.

Thanks for any information,

--
Matt Larson, Distributed Systems Analyst
Academic Computing and Network Services, Northwestern University
matt@acns.nwu.edu   (708) 491-5366