GateD Manuals

The Merit GateD Consortium provides documentation you will need to install, operate, and support GateD in your environment. Manuals are available for GateD Unicast, Multicast, IPv6, and the GateD public release.

Documentation covering GateD internals is password protected and available only to consortium members.

Ready Reference

Quick Starting GateD

Instructions for getting GateD software up and running.

Trouble-shooting

Look here for solutions to common GateD problems.

Support Services

Bug reports, patches, and e-mail lists.

Manuals

Installing GateD

Step-by-step guide for installing all GateD product lines.

Configuring GateD

Detailed information on configuring GateD for all Internet protocols in our Unicast, Multicast, IPv6, and RSd products. Covered protocols include:

Unicast—[Static] [RIP] [OSPF] [BGP];

Multicast—[Static] [IGMP] [DVMRP] [PIM-SM] [PIM-DM] [BGP-4+] [BGMP][MSDP];

IPv6—[Static] [RIPng] [BGP-4+].

This guide also contains information on GateD route redistribution (import/export) and SNMP support.

Operating GateD

Complete command line information, including options, signals, and various support programs. Several utilities are also detailed in this guide, including: gdc, rip_query, gated, gii and ospf_monitor.

GateD Internals

Unicast

Documentation of GateD Unicast software internals.

Multicast

Documentation of GateD Multicast software internals.

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

Documentation of GateD IPv6 software internals.

Route Server Daemon (RSd)

Documentation of GateD RSd software internals. Draft form is available to consortium members by request.