6.12. Monitoring RIPD

Problem

How do you see what RIPD is doing in real time?

Solution

Open a telnet session, and run the built-in RIPD-watching commands:

	$ telnet localhost 2602
	ripd1> show ip rip
	ripd1> show ip rip status
	ripd1> show work-queues

There are a number of helpful debugging commands as well:

	ripd1> enable
	ripd1# debug rip zebra
	ripd1# debug rip events

Discussion

The first three commands show routes and all manner of statistics, and the communications between routers. The debug commands show probably more details than you'll ever need to know, but when you're tracking down a problem, they usually pinpoint it quickly.

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