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File Formats                                          gateways(4)



NAME
     gateways - configuration file for  /usr/sbin/in.routed  IPv4
     network routing daemon

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/gateways

DESCRIPTION
     The /etc/gateways  file  is  used  by  the  routing  daemon,
     in.routed(1M).    When   the   daemon   starts,   it   reads
     /etc/gateways to find such distant gateways that  cannot  be
     located  using  only  information  from a routing socket, to
     discover if some of the local gateways are passive,  and  to
     obtain other parameters.

     The /etc/gateways file consists of a series of  lines,  each
     in  one  of  the  two  formats  shown below or consisting of
     parameters described later. Blank lines and  lines  starting
     with "#" are treated as comments.

     One format specifies networks:

     net Nname[/mask] gateway Gname metric value <passive | active | extern>


     The other format specifies hosts:

     host Hname gateway Gname metric value <passive | active | extern>


     Host hname is equivalent to net nname/32.

     The parameters in the lines shown  above  are  described  as
     follows:

     Nname or Hname

         Name of the destination network or host.  It  can  be  a
         symbolic  network  name or an Internet address specified
         in "dot" notation (see inet(3SOCKET)). If it is a  name,
         then  it  must  either  be  defined  in /etc/networks or
         /etc/hosts, or a naming service must have  been  started
         before in.routed(1M).



     Mask

         An optional number between 1 and 32 indicating the  net-
         mask associated with Nname.





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     Gname

         Name or address of the gateway to  which  RIP  responses
         should be forwarded.



     Value

         The hop count to the destination host or network.



     passive | active | extern

         One of  these  keywords  must  be  present  to  indicate
         whether  the  gateway  should  be  treated as passive or
         active, or whether the gateway is external to the  scope
         of  the RIP protocol.  A passive gateway is not expected
         to exchange routing information, while  gateways  marked
         active  should  be  willing to exchange RIP packets. See
         in.routed(1M) for further details.



     After turning on debugging in in.routed with the -t  option,
     you  can  see  that  lines  that follow the format described
     above create pseudo-interfaces. To set parameters for remote
     or   external   interfaces,   use   a   line  starting  with
     if=alias(Hname), if=remote(Hname), and so forth.

     For  backward  compatibility  with  the   previous   Solaris
     in.routed  implementation, three special keyword formats are
     accepted. If present, these forms must each be on a separate
     line,  and must not be combined on the same line with any of
     the keywords listed elsewhere in this document.  These three
     forms are:

     norip ifname            Disable all RIP  processing  on  the
                             specified interface.



     noripin ifname          Disable the processing  of  received
                             RIP   responses   on  the  specified
                             interface.



     noripout ifname         Disable RIP output on the  specified
                             interface.




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     Lines that start with neither "net" nor "host" must  consist
     of   one  or  more  of  the  following  parameter  settings,
     separated by commas or blanks:

     if=ifname

         Indicates that the other parameters on  the  line  apply
         only  to the interface name ifname. If this parameter is
         not specified, then other parameters on the  line  apply
         to all interfaces.



     subnet=nname[/mask][,metric]

         Advertises a route to network nname with mask  mask  and
         the supplied metric (default 1). This is useful for fil-
         ling "holes" in CIDR allocations.  This  parameter  must
         appear  by  itself  on  a  line. The network number must
         specify a full, 32-bit value, as in 192.0.2.0 instead of
         192.0.2.



     ripv1_mask=nname/mask1,mask2

         Specifies that the  netmask  of  the  network  of  which
         nname/mask1  is  a  subnet should be mask2. For example,
         ripv1_mask=192.0.2.16/28,27  marks  192.0.2.16/28  as  a
         subnet  of  192.0.2.0/27  instead of 192.0.2.0/24. It is
         better to turn on RIPv2 instead of using this  facility.
         See the description of ripv2_out, below.



     passwd=XXX[|KeyID[start|stop]]

         Specifies  a  RIPv2  cleartext  password  that  will  be
         included on all RIPv2 responses sent, and checked on all
         RIPv2 responses received. Any  blanks,  tab  characters,
         commas,  or "#", "|", or NULL characters in the password
         must be escaped with a backslash (\). The common  escape
         sequences  \n,  \r,  \t,  \b,  and \xxx have their usual
         meanings. The KeyID must be unique but  is  ignored  for
         cleartext  passwords.  If  present,  start  and stop are
         timestamps in the form year/month/day@hour:minute.  They
         specify  when  the password is valid. The valid password
         with the longest  future  is  used  on  output  packets,
         unless  all  passwords  have  expired, in which case the
         password that expired most recently is used. If no pass-
         words  are  valid  yet,  no password is output. Incoming
         packets can carry any password that is  valid,  will  be



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         valid  within  24  hours,  or  that  was valid within 24
         hours. To protect password secrecy, the passwd  settings
         are  valid  only in the /etc/gateways file and only when
         that file is readable only by UID 0.



     md5_passwd=XXX|KeyID[start|stop]

         Specifies a RIPv2 MD5 password. Except that a  KeyID  is
         required,  this  keyword is similar to passwd (described
         above).



     no_ag

         Turns off aggregation of  subnets  in  RIPv1  and  RIPv2
         responses.



     no_host

         Turns off acceptance of host routes.



     no_super_ag

         Turns off aggregation  of  networks  into  supernets  in
         RIPv2 responses.



     passive

         Marks the interface not to be advertised in updates sent
         over  other interfaces, and turns off all RIP and router
         discovery through the interface.



     no_rip

         Disables all RIP processing on the specified  interface.
         If  no  interfaces  are  allowed to process RIP packets,
         in.routed acts purely as a router discovery daemon.

         Note that turning off RIP without explicitly turning  on
         router  discovery  advertisements  with  rdisc_adv or -s
         causes in.routed to act as  a  client  router  discovery



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         daemon, which does not advertise.



     no_rip_mcast

         Causes RIPv2 packets to be broadcast instead  of  multi-
         cast.



     no_ripv1_in

         Causes RIPv1 received responses to be ignored.



     no_ripv2_in

         Causes RIPv2 received responses to be ignored.



     ripv2_out

         Turns on RIPv2 output and causes RIPv2 advertisements to
         be multicast when possible.



     ripv2

         Equivalent to no_ripv1_in and  ripv2_out.  This  enables
         RIPv2 and disables RIPv1.



     no_rdisc

         Disables the Internet Router Discovery Protocol.



     no_solicit

         Disables the transmission of Router Discovery  Solicita-
         tions.



     send_solicit




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         Specifies that Router Discovery solicitations should  be
         sent,  even  on point-to-point links, which, by default,
         only listen to Router Discovery messages.



     no_rdisc_adv

         Disables the transmission of Router Discovery Advertise-
         ments.



     rdisc_adv

         Specifies that Router Discovery Advertisements should be
         sent,  even  on  point-to-point  links, which by default
         only listen to Router Discovery messages.



     bcast_rdisc

         Specifies that Router Discovery packets should be broad-
         cast instead of multicast.



     rdisc_pref=N

         Sets the preference in Router  Discovery  Advertisements
         to  the optionally signed integer N. The default prefer-
         ence is 0. Default routes with higher or  less  negative
         preferences are preferred by clients.



     rdisc_interval=N

         Sets the nominal interval with  which  Router  Discovery
         Advertisements  are  transmitted  to N seconds and their
         lifetime to 3*N.



     fake_default=metric

         Has an identical effect to -F  net[/mask][=metric]  with
         the network number and netmask coming from the specified
         interface.





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     pm_rdisc

         Similar to fake_default. To prevent RIPv1 listeners from
         receiving  RIPv2 routes when those routes are multicast,
         this feature causes a RIPv1 default route to  be  broad-
         cast   to   RIPv1   listeners.   Unless   modified  with
         fake_default, the default  route  is  broadcast  with  a
         metric  of  14.  That  serves  as  a  "poor man's router
         discovery" protocol.



     trust_gateway=rtr_name[|net1/mask1|net2/mask2|...]

         Causes RIP packets from that router  and  other  routers
         named  in  other  trust_gateway keywords to be accepted,
         and packets from other routers to be  ignored.  If  net-
         works  are specified, then routes to other networks will
         be ignored from that router.



     redirect_ok

         Causes RIP to allow ICMP Redirect messages when the sys-
         tem is acting as a router and forwarding packets. Other-
         wise, ICMP Redirect messages are overridden.



     rip_neighbor=x.x.x.x

         By default,  RIPv1  advertisements  over  point-to-point
         links  are  sent to the peer's address (255.255.255.255,
         if none is available), and RIPv2 advertisements are sent
         to  either  the  RIP  multicast  address  or  the peer's
         address if no_rip_mcast is set.  This  option  overrides
         those  defaults and configures a specific address to use
         on the indicated interface. This can be used  to  set  a
         "broadcast" type advertisement on a point-to-point link.



SEE ALSO
     in.routed(1M), route(1M), rtquery(1M), inet(3SOCKET),

     Internet Transport  Protocols,  XSIS  028112,  Xerox  System
     Integration Standard







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