============= WHAT IS ZEBRA ============= Zebra is a free software that manages TCP/IP based routing protocol. It takes multi-server and multi-thread approach to resolve the current complexity of the Internet. Currently zebra is still under development, so If you want to use zebra, I strongly recommend you to get the latest version of zebra. Zebra snapshot is released on every monday. =================== SUPPORTED Protocols =================== Zebra supports both IPv4 and IPv6 :-) For supporting IPv4 Routing protocols is here RIP (both version1 and version2) RIPv2 supports both Multicast and Broadcast BGP (only support BGP4) For supporting IPv6 Routing protocols is here RIPng BGP4+ =================== Supported plat-home =================== Now zebra is testing on o FreeBSD 2.2.8 -- without IPv6 ;-) -- with KAME -- with INRIA IPv6 protocol stack. o GNU/Linux 2.2.2 o GNU/Linux 2.0.36 =========== ZEBRA Ports =========== Each daemon has each own terminal interface. Also zebra has communication port which provides several services to other daemons. Below is zebra ports list. zebrasrv 2600/tcp # zebra service zebra 2601/tcp # zebra vty ripd 2602/tcp # RIPd vty ripngd 2603/tcp # RIPngd vty ospfd 2604/tcp # OSPFd vty bgpd 2605/tcp # BGPd vty pimd 2611/tcp # PIMd vty I recommend you to add upper list to /etc/services. ==================== For More Information ==================== Web page is located at: http://www.zebra.org/ Alpha version source file can be found at: ftp://ftp.zebra.org/pub/zebra/ Mailing List is here zebra@zebra.org zebra-jp@zebra.org If you want to join zebra mailing list, mail to majordomo@zebra.org and you write subscribe zebra -- if you want to talk with English subscribe zebra-jp -- if you want to talk with Japanese on Mail BODY (Not Subject). Enjoy.