Quagga (software)
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| Stable release | 0.99.20 / September 29, 2011 |
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| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Routing |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://www.quagga.net/ |
Quagga is a network routing software suite providing implementations of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and IS-IS for Unix-like platforms, particularly Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD.[1][2]
Quagga is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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[edit] Name
The project is named after the quagga, an extinct subspecies of the African zebra. Quagga is a fork of the GNU Zebra project which was developed by Kunihiro Ishiguro and which has been inactive since 2005. The Quagga tree aims to build a more involved community for Quagga than the centralized development model of GNU Zebra provided.
[edit] Components
The Quagga architecture consists of a core daemon (zebra) which is an abstraction layer to the underlying Unix kernel and presents the Zserv API over a Unix-domain socket or TCP socket to Quagga clients. The Zserv clients typically implement a routing protocol and communicate routing updates to the zebra daemon. Existing Zserv clients are:
- ospfd, implementing Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv2)
- ripd, implementing Routing Information Protocol (RIP) version 1 and 2;
- ospf6d, implementing Open Shortest Path First (OSPFv3) for IPv6
- ripngd, implementing Routing Information Protocol (RIPng) for IPv6
- bgpd, implementing Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv4+), including address family support for IP multicast and IPv6.
The RE-testing-0.99 branch aditionally contains babeld[3], which implements the Babel routing protocol.
Additionally, the Quagga architecture has a rich development library to facilitate the implementation of protocol and client software with consistent configuration and administrative behavior.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Benedikt Stockebrand. IPv6 in practice. Springer.
- ^ Schroder, Carla (2007). Linux Networking Cookbook. O'Reilly. pp. 173-203. ISBN 0596102488.
- ^ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.quagga.user/12370
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