Free Clients

Dear Regional Technicians: At IETF, I made a brief presentation about some clients which query the Merit's new NSFNET/ANSnet Policy-Based Routing Database (PRDB). They allow one to query the PRDB using net IP, AS number, regional/midlevel gate IP, or NSS number, and to obtain routing information in various formats. The main client is "prdbshow", and there are several one-line scripts which are essentially 'aliases' for specific queries; these are packaged with a manpage and available via anonymous FTP from merit.edu as: /pub/src/prdbshow.tar.Z Please try it out and let me know how you like it. Thanks, Steven J. Richardson/Merit Network, Inc.