1 .TH ZEBRA 8 "25 November 2004" "Zebra daemon" "Version 0.97.3"
3 zebra \- a routing manager for use with associated Quagga components.
29 is a routing manager that implements the
33 supports RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, OSPF, OSPF6, IS-IS, BGP4+, and BGP4-.
35 Options available for the
39 \fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-batch\fR
40 Runs in batch mode, \fBzebra\fR parses its config and exits.
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/zebra.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 zebra starts its process identifier is written to
57 \fB\fIpid-file\fR. The init system uses the recorded PID to stop or
58 restart zebra. The likely default is \fB\fI/var/run/zebra.pid\fR.
60 \fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-keep_kernel\fR
61 On startup, don't delete self inserted routes.
63 \fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-vty_port \fR\fIport-number\fR
64 Specify the port that the zebra VTY will listen on. This defaults to
65 2601, as specified in \fB\fI/etc/services\fR.
67 \fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-vty_addr \fR\fIvty-address\fR
68 Specify the address that the zebra 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 \fBzebra\fR.
77 \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-nl-bufsize \fR\fInetlink-buffer-size\fR
78 Set netlink receive buffer size. There are cases where zebra daemon can't
79 handle flood of netlink messages from kernel. If you ever see "recvmsg overrun"
80 messages in zebra log, you are in trouble.
82 Solution is to increase receive buffer of netlink socket. Note that kernel
83 < 2.6.14 doesn't allow increasing it over the maximum value defined in
84 \fI/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max\fR. If you want to do it, you have to increase
85 maximum before starting zebra.
87 Note that this affects Linux only.
89 \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
90 Print the version and exit.
93 .BI /usr/local/sbin/zebra
94 The default location of the
98 .BI /usr/local/etc/zebra.conf
99 The default location of the
106 process is config'd to output logs to a file, then you will find this
107 file in the directory where you started \fBzebra\fR.
109 This man page is intended to be a quick reference for command line
110 options. The definitive document is the Info file \fBQuagga\fR.
112 The zebra process may log to standard output, to a VTY, to a log
113 file, or through syslog to the system logs. \fBzebra\fR supports many
114 debugging options, see the Info file, or the source for details.
126 eats bugs for breakfast. If you have food for the maintainers try
127 .BI http://bugzilla.quagga.net
130 .BI http://www.zebra.org
132 .BI http://www.quagga.net
133 or the Info file for an accurate list of authors.