ANYTUN-SHOWTABLES(8)

📦 version 0.3.8, in alpine 3.24, debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute

💖 anytun-showtables(8) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about anytun-showtables — it's the anycast tunneling routing table visualization utility and honestly? it's giving "quiet overachiever." it's part of the Anytun manual, section 8 (that's admin/system tools for the uninitiated 💅), and it does exactly one job but it does it so well.

✨ NAME ✨

anytun-showtables — the anycast tunneling routing table visualization utility 🦋

like. the name literally tells you what it does. no mystery, no mind games, we love a transparent queen.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

anytun-showtables

that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no args, no drama. she just shows up and shows tables. main character energy fr fr 🎀

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea: anytun-showtables displays the routing and connection tables used by Anytun. that's its whole vibe.

and it's lowkey flexible about it too, because you can use it two ways:

  • to display a saved routing/connection table, like the kind used by anytun-controld 📁
  • or to connect to the sync port of Anytun and get the live one 🔌

either way, she eats. no cap.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

okay so this is the part where I'd normally list 40 flags and we'd all get carpal tunnel scrolling, but guess what? this tool does not take any options. zero. none. nada. iconic behavior honestly, she said "I don't need settings, I need vibes."

the way it works instead: it takes the sync information from the standard input and prints the routing table to the standard output. so it's a stdin-in, stdout-out situation. pipe it, redirect it, whatever — she's not picky, she's just optionless. 🫶

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

Print routing table stored in local file 📂

# perl -ne 'chomp; print' < routingtable | ./anytun-showtables

Print current routing table and watch changes 👀

# nc unicast1.anycast.anytun.org 23 | ./anytun-showtables

look at that second one. nc into the host on port 23 and pipe it straight in, and you're just… watching the table update in real time. it's giving live sports commentary but for routing. obsessed. 🔥

💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, most likely there are some bugs in Anytun. it's software, bestie, it happens. 😭

if you find a bug, please let the developers know at satp@anytun.org. and — and this is the part they really want — patches are preferred. so if you can fix it yourself? send it in. they will love you for it. be the change you want to see in the routing table. 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group. go read them, they're all connected, iykyk. 💜

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

  • Othmar Gsenger <otti@anytun.org>
  • Erwin Nindl <nine@anytun.org>
  • Christian Pointner <equinox@anytun.org>

three absolute legends. give them their flowers. 💐

🌸 RESOURCES 🌸

Main web site: http://www.anytun.org/

go visit, say hi, poke around. ✨

💖 COPYING 💖

Copyright (C) 2007-2014 Markus Grüneis, Othmar Gsenger, Erwin Nindl and Christian Pointner.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

so yeah — free as in freedom, copyleft, the whole thing. respect the license bestie, it's not optional. 🫶

and that's the whole page! she's short, she's sweet, she takes no options and she knows exactly what she's about. 💅

and that's a wrap, babes — this one's from the Anytun project, version-dated 01/06/2020, and it lives in section 8 of the manual. go forth and visualize some tables. slay. 👑✨🦋

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