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18.Dd $Mdocdate: October 27 2015 $
19.Dt EIGRPD 8
20.Os
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm eigrpd
23.Nd Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol daemon
24.Sh SYNOPSIS
25.Nm
26.Op Fl dnv
27.Op Fl D Ar macro Ns = Ns Ar value
28.Op Fl f Ar file
29.Op Fl s Ar socket
30.Sh DESCRIPTION
31.Nm
32is an Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
33.Pq EIGRP
34daemon which manages routing tables.
35EIGRP is a routing protocol based on Distance Vector technology.
36.Pp
37.Nm
38is usually started at boot time, and can be enabled by
39setting the following in
40.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local :
41.Pp
42.Dl eigrpd_flags=\&"\&"
43.Pp
44See
45.Xr rc 8
46and
47.Xr rc.conf 8
48for more information on the boot process
49and enabling daemons.
50.Pp
51A running
52.Nm
53can be controlled with the
54.Xr eigrpctl 8
55utility.
56.Pp
57The options are as follows:
58.Bl -tag -width Ds
59.It Fl D Ar macro Ns = Ns Ar value
60Define
61.Ar macro
62to be set to
63.Ar value
64on the command line.
65Overrides the definition of
66.Ar macro
67in the configuration file.
68.It Fl d
69Do not daemonize.
70If this option is specified,
71.Nm
72will run in the foreground and log to
73.Em stderr .
74.It Fl f Ar file
75Specify an alternative configuration file.
76.It Fl n
77Configtest mode.
78Only check the configuration file for validity.
79.It Fl s Ar socket
80Use an alternate location for the default control socket.
81.It Fl v
82Produce more verbose output.
83.El
84.Sh FILES
85.Bl -tag -width "/var/run/eigrpd.sockXX" -compact
86.It Pa /etc/eigrpd.conf
87Default
88.Nm
89configuration file.
90.It Pa /var/run/eigrpd.sock
91.Ux Ns -domain
92socket used for communication with
93.Xr eigrpctl 8 .
94.El
95.Sh SEE ALSO
96.Xr eigrpd.conf 5 ,
97.Xr eigrpctl 8
98.Sh STANDARDS
99.Rs
100.%A Savage, et al.
101.%D April 2014
102.%R draft-savage-eigrp-04
103.%T Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
104.Re
105.Sh HISTORY
106The
107.Nm
108program first appeared in
109.Ox 5.9 .
110.Sh AUTHORS
111The
112.Nm
113program was written by
114.An Renato Westphal Aq Mt renato@openbsd.org .
115