ZEBRA(8) Version 0.97.3 ZEBRA(8)

zebra - a routing manager for use with associated Quagga components.

zebra [ -bdhklrv ] [ -f config-file ] [ -i pid-file ] [ -P port-number ] [ -A vty-address ] [ -u user ] [ -g group ]

zebra is a routing manager that implements the zebra route engine. zebra supports RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, OSPF, OSPF6, IS-IS, BGP4+, and BGP4-.

Options available for the zebra command:

Runs in batch mode, zebra parses its config and exits.
Runs in daemon mode, forking and exiting from tty.
Specifies the config file to use for startup. If not specified this option will likely default to /usr/local/etc/zebra.conf.
Specify the group to run as. Default is quagga.
A brief message.
When zebra starts its process identifier is written to pid-file. The init system uses the recorded PID to stop or restart zebra. The likely default is /var/run/zebra.pid.
On startup, don't delete self inserted routes.
Specify the port that the zebra VTY will listen on. This defaults to 2601, as specified in /etc/services.
Specify the address that the zebra VTY will listen on. Default is all interfaces.
Specify the user to run as. Default is quagga.
When the program terminates, retain routes added by zebra.
Set netlink receive buffer size. There are cases where zebra daemon can't handle flood of netlink messages from kernel. If you ever see "recvmsg overrun" messages in zebra log, you are in trouble.

Solution is to increase receive buffer of netlink socket. Note that kernel < 2.6.14 doesn't allow increasing it over the maximum value defined in /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max. If you want to do it, you have to increase maximum before starting zebra.

Note that this affects Linux only.

Print the version and exit.

/usr/local/sbin/zebra
The default location of the zebra binary.
/usr/local/etc/zebra.conf
The default location of the zebra config file.
$(PWD)/zebra.log
If the zebra process is config'd to output logs to a file, then you will find this file in the directory where you started zebra.

This man page is intended to be a quick reference for command line options. The definitive document is the Info file Quagga.

The zebra process may log to standard output, to a VTY, to a log file, or through syslog to the system logs. zebra supports many debugging options, see the Info file, or the source for details.

bgpd(8), ripd(8), ripngd(8), ospfd(8), ospf6d(8), isisd(8), nhrpd(8), vtysh(1)

zebra eats bugs for breakfast. If you have food for the maintainers try http://bugzilla.quagga.net

See http://www.zebra.org and http://www.quagga.net or the Info file for an accurate list of authors.

25 November 2004 Zebra daemon