1 .TH BGPD 8 "25 November 2004" "Quagga BGPD daemon" "Version 0.97.3"
3 bgpd \- a BGPv4, BGPv4\+, BGPv4\- routing engine for use with Quagga routing
34 is a routing component that works with the
38 Options available for the
42 \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-daemon\fR
43 Runs in daemon mode, forking and exiting from tty.
45 \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-config-file \fR\fIconfig-file\fR
46 Specifies the config file to use for startup. If not specified this
47 option will likely default to \fB\fI/usr/local/etc/bgpd.conf\fR.
49 \fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-group \fR\fIgroup\fR
50 Specify the group to run as. Default is \fIquagga\fR.
52 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
55 \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-pid_file \fR\fIpid-file\fR
56 When bgpd starts its process identifier is written to
57 \fB\fIpid-file\fR. The init system uses the recorded PID to stop or
58 restart bgpd. The likely default is \fB\fI/var/run/bgpd.pid\fR.
60 \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-bgp_port \fR\fIbgp-port-number\fR
61 Set the port that bgpd will listen to for bgp data.
63 \fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-vty_port \fR\fIport-number\fR
64 Specify the port that the bgpd VTY will listen on. This defaults to
65 2605, as specified in \fI/etc/services\fR.
67 \fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-vty_addr \fR\fIvty-address\fR
68 Specify the address that the bgpd VTY will listen on. Default is all
71 \fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-user \fR\fIuser\fR
72 Specify the user to run as. Default is \fIquagga\fR.
74 \fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-retain\fR
75 When the program terminates, retain routes added by \fBbgpd\fR.
77 \fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-skip_runas\fR
78 Skip setting the process effective user and group.
80 \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
81 Print the version and exit.
84 .BI /usr/local/sbin/bgpd
85 The default location of the
89 .BI /usr/local/etc/bgpd.conf
90 The default location of the
97 process is config'd to output logs to a file, then you will find this
98 file in the directory where you started \fBbgpd\fR.
100 This man page is intended to be a quick reference for command line
101 options. The definitive document is the Info file \fBQuagga\fR.
103 The bgpd process may log to standard output, to a VTY, to a log
104 file, or through syslog to the system logs. \fBbgpd\fR supports many
105 debugging options, see the Info file, or the source for details.
117 eats bugs for breakfast. If you have food for the maintainers try
118 .BI http://bugzilla.quagga.net
121 .BI http://www.zebra.org
123 .BI http://www.quagga.net
124 or the Info file for an accurate list of authors.