# How to use "Route Request Command"

**URL:** <https://forums.digi.com/t/how-to-use-route-request-command/17256>\
**Category:** XBee & XBee Gateway\
**Tags:** xbee, routing-table\
**Created:** [August 16, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/how-to-use-route-request-command/17256 "2016-08-16T22:57:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/how-to-use-route-request-command/17256/1 "2016-08-16T22:57:55Z")

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Could you tell me How to use “Route Request Command”?  
I konw the general format of the Route Request Command from this document, page …

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## [Intranet DEIB](http://home.deib.polimi.it/cesana/teaching/IoT/papers/ZigBee/ZigBeeSpec.pdf) page 343/604

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## Octets: 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0/8

## Command | Route request | Destination | Path cost | Destination options | identifier | address | | IEEE Address

## NWK command payload

Route Request Command Frame Format

But i don’t know how to send it using XCTU,  
since I could not find any thing related to it in X-CTU

Could you tell me how to send it using X-CTU?  
In addition, could you tell me how to send it in API mode?

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**Author:** ![mvut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.digi.com/mvut/32/31_2.png) [@mvut](https://forums.digi.com/u/mvut)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/how-to-use-route-request-command/17256/2 "2016-08-18T10:50:51Z")

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Read the product manual for the exact xbee module you are working with. You will find that the ability to view the rout is part of the radios firmware and documented.