From owner-freebsd-net Wed Mar 24 17:34:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144C814EB8 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:34:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-wat.sentex.net (ospf-wat.sentex.net [209.167.248.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA03265; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:33:40 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: sharon_j@netvision.net.il (Chen Genossar) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: configuration tools for gated Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 01:43:13 GMT Message-ID: <36f98643.3528635239@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 24 Mar 1999 12:28:25 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.misc you wrote: >Hi, > >I want to use gated as a router. >I have some questions about monitoring & administrating tools for gated: > >I know there is two tools: rip-query & ospf-monitor. >Those tools are very static (can't make dynamic changes with them). >I am looking for dynamic configuration tools. gdc checkconf gdc reconfig These will be your friends with gated. >Does anybody knows which administrative tools exists for gated? gdc checkconf gdc reconfig >Do they (this tools) are working with CLI ? GUI ? gdc checkconf gdc reconfig All from the shell prompt.. >Does this tools support dynamic modifications & configuration? Yes. Make sure you turn up the tracing/logging. It can be quite verbose and chatty, but it should give you most everything you need. Also, look to www.gated.org and the mailing list archives for more info. Other projects that might be of interest are www.zebra.org and mrt http://www.merit.edu/net-research/mrt/html/ gated is pretty sparse for documentation, and features. But it seems to work... OK. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message