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ogated(8) System Manager's Manual ogated(8) NAME ogated - The gateway routing daemon SYNOPSIS /usr/sbin/ogated [-t [i] [e] [r] [p] [u] [R] [H]] [logfile] The ogated daemon processes multiple routing protocols according to the configuration set in ogated.conf file. FLAGS Logs all external errors due to EGP, exterior routing errors, and EGP state changes. Traces all HELLO packets received. Logs all internal errors and interior routing errors. Traces all EGP packets sent and received. Traces all RIP packets received. Logs all routing changes. If used alone, the -t flag starts the -i, -e, -r, and -p trace flags. When used with another flag, the -t flag has no effect and only the ac- companying flags are recognized. Note that when other flags are used, the -t flag must be used with them and must be the first flag given in the command line. Logs all routing updates sent. The ogated daemon always logs fatal errors. If no log file is specified and none of the preceding trace flags are set, all messages are sent to the /dev/null file. DESCRIPTION The ogated daemon manages multiple routing protocols, including the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP), and Local Network Protocol (HELLO). The ogated process can be config- ured to perform all or any combination of these routing protocols. It replaces daemons that use the HELLO routing protocol; for example, routed (8) and egpup (8). The configuration for the ogated daemon is by default stored in the /etc/ogated.conf file, and can be changed at compile time in the file defs.h. The ogated daemon stores its process ID in the /var/run/ogated.pid file. When a routing update indicates that the route in use is being deleted, the ogated daemon waits for 2 minutes before deleting the route. Be aware that unpredictable results may occur when the ogated and routed daemons are run together on the same host. Start the ogated daemon with a log file that you specify on the command line. You can also enter one or more trace flags on the command line or specify the flags in the traceflags stanza of the ogated.conf con- figuration file. When trace flags are specified without a log file, all trace output is sent to the controlling terminal. By default, the ogated daemon forks and detaches itself from the con- trolling terminal. When certain networks are restricted from using the Internet network, the ogated daemon uses both the syslogd daemon at the LOG_WARNING log level and the LOG_DAEMON facility to record all invalid networks. If you use the EGP when you supply the default route (by the RIP or HELLO gateway) and all EGP neighbors are lost, the default route is not advertised until at least one EGP neighbor is regained. The RIP both propagates and listens to host routes. This allows the ogated daemon to handle point-to-point links with consistency. The ogated daemon also supports the RIP_TRACE commands. The ogated daemon detects changes made to the network interfaces and its own start-up flags while it is running. Thus, you need not restart the ogated daemon if you change the configuration. However, if the net mask, subnet mask, broadcast address, or interface metric is changed, use the ifconfig(8) command to mark the interface down and then up 30 seconds later. Subnet interfaces are supported. Subnet information is passed through interfaces to other subnets of the same network. The ogated daemon listens to host and network REDIRECT signals. The daemon tries to take an action for its own internal tables. This ac- tion is parallel to the action the kernel takes on the REDIRECT signal. In addition, the ogated daemon cancels (times out) all routes learned from REDIRECT signals in 6 minutes. The daemon then deletes the route from the kernel routing tables, which keeps the routing tables consis- tent. No routing protocol announces routes learned from REDIRECT signals. The ogated EGP code verifies that all networks sent and received are valid class A, B, or C networks as specified by the EGP. The ogated daemon does not contribute information about networks that do not meet EGP specifications. If an EGP update packet contains information about a network that is not class A, B, or C, the ogated daemon considers the update to be in error and ignores it. Signals The ogated server performs the following actions when you use the kill(1) command to send it the SIGHUP and SIGINT signals. When a SIGHUP signal is sent to a ogated daemon that was invoked with trace flags and a log file, tracing is toggled off and the log file is closed. At this point the log file can be moved or deleted. When the next SIGHUP signal is sent to the ogated daemon, tracing is toggled on. The ogated daemon reads the /etc/ogated.conf configuration file and sets the trace flags to those specified by the traceflags stanza. If no traceflags stanza exists, tracing resumes and uses any trace flags specified on the command line. Trace output is sent to the log file specified on the command line. The output is appended if the log file already exists, and the file is created if it does not exist. Sending the ogated daemon a SIGINT signal causes a memory dump to be scheduled within the next 60 seconds. The memory dump is written to a file named /usr/tmp/ogated_dump. The ogated daemon processes all pending routing updates before performing the memory dump. The memory dump contains a snapshot of the current ogated daemon status, including the interface configurations, EGP neighbor status, and the routing tables. If the /usr/tmp/ogated_dump file already exists, the memory dump is appended to the existing file. Internal Metrics for the ogated Daemon The ogated daemon stores all metrics internally as a time delay in mil- liseconds to preserve the granularity of HELLO time delays. The inter- nal delay ranges from 0 to 30,000 milliseconds, with 30,000 represent- ing infinity. Metrics from other protocols are translated to and from a time delay as they are received and transmitted. EGP distances are not comparable to HELLO and RIP metrics but are stored as time delays internally for comparison with other EGP metrics. The conversion fac- tor between EGP distances and time delays is 100. RIP and interface metrics are translated to and from the internal time delays with the use of the following translation tables. The first two columns represent the time delay to RIP metric translation, while the second two columns represent the RIP metric to time delay translation. tab(%); cb s cb cb cb cb cb cb cb cb n n n n n. Time Delay%%%% Mini- mum%Maximum%RIP Metric%RIP Metric%Time Delay % 0%0%0%0%0 1%100%1%1%100 101%148%2%2%148 149%219%3%3%219 220%325%4%4%325 326%481%5%5%481 482%713%6%6%713 714%1057%7%7%1057 1058%1567%8%8%1567 1568%2322%9%9%2322 2323%3440%10%10%3440 3441%5097%11%11%5097 5098%7552%12%12%7552 7553%11,190%13%13%11,190 11,191%16,579%14%14%16,579 16,580%24,564%15%15%24,564 24,565%30,000%16%16%30,000 CAUTIONS Unpredictable results may occur when the ogated and routed daemons are run together on the same host. FILES Specifies the command path Contains the ogated configuration informa- tion Contains the ogated process ID Specifies the memory dump file RELATED INFORMATION Commands: kill, routed(8) Files: ogated.conf(4) delim off ogated(8)