AIX 5L Problem Determination - IBM Redbooks

Flag Description
-I Interface Shows the state of the configured interface specified by the interface
variable
-f
AddressFamily
8.5.7 The route command
The route command manually manipulates the routing tables. The command
has the following syntax:
route Command [ Family ] [ [ -net | -host ] Destination
[-netmask [ Address ] ] Gateway ] [ Arguments ]
The most commonly used flags are provided in Table 8-7.
Table 8-7 Commonly used flags of the route command
8.5.8 The tcpdump command
Limits reports of statistics or address control blocks to those items
specified by the AddressFamily variable
-p Protocol Shows statistics about the value specified by the protocol variable
Flag Description
Command add Adds a route
flush or -f Removes all routes
delete Deletes a specific route
get Looks up and displays the route for a destination
-net Indicates that the destination parameter should be interpreted as a
network
-host Indicates that the destination parameter should be interpreted as a
host
Destination Identifies the host or network to which you are directing the route
-netmask Specifies the network mask to the destination address
Gateway Identifies the gateway to which packets are addressed
The syntax of the tcpdump command is:
tcpdump [ -I ] [ -n ] [ -N ] [ -t ] [ -v ] [ -c Count ] [ -i Interface ]
[ -w File ] [ Expression ]
The most useful tcpdump flags are provided in Table 8-8 on page 196.
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