| .TH BGPD 8 "25 November 2004" "Quagga BGPD daemon" "Version 0.97.3" |
| .SH NAME |
| bgpd \- a BGPv4, BGPv4\+, BGPv4\- routing engine for use with Quagga routing |
| software |
| |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B bgpd |
| [ |
| .B \-dhrv |
| ] [ |
| .B \-f |
| .I config-file |
| ] [ |
| .B \-i |
| .I pid-file |
| ] [ |
| .B \-p |
| .I bgp-port-number |
| ] [ |
| .B \-P |
| .I port-number |
| ] [ |
| .B \-A |
| .I vty-address |
| ] [ |
| .B \-u |
| .I user |
| ] [ |
| .B \-g |
| .I group |
| ] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B bgpd |
| is a routing component that works with the |
| .B Quagga |
| routing engine. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| Options available for the |
| .B bgpd |
| command: |
| .TP |
| \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-daemon\fR |
| Runs in daemon mode, forking and exiting from tty. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-config-file \fR\fIconfig-file\fR |
| Specifies the config file to use for startup. If not specified this |
| option will likely default to \fB\fI/usr/local/etc/bgpd.conf\fR. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-group \fR\fIgroup\fR |
| Specify the group to run as. Default is \fIquagga\fR. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR |
| A brief message. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-pid_file \fR\fIpid-file\fR |
| When bgpd starts its process identifier is written to |
| \fB\fIpid-file\fR. The init system uses the recorded PID to stop or |
| restart bgpd. The likely default is \fB\fI/var/run/bgpd.pid\fR. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-bgp_port \fR\fIbgp-port-number\fR |
| Set the port that bgpd will listen to for bgp data. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-vty_port \fR\fIport-number\fR |
| Specify the port that the bgpd VTY will listen on. This defaults to |
| 2605, as specified in \fI/etc/services\fR. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-vty_addr \fR\fIvty-address\fR |
| Specify the address that the bgpd VTY will listen on. Default is all |
| interfaces. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-user \fR\fIuser\fR |
| Specify the user to run as. Default is \fIquagga\fR. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-retain\fR |
| When the program terminates, retain routes added by \fBbgpd\fR. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR |
| Print the version and exit. |
| .SH FILES |
| .TP |
| .BI /usr/local/sbin/bgpd |
| The default location of the |
| .B bgpd |
| binary. |
| .TP |
| .BI /usr/local/etc/bgpd.conf |
| The default location of the |
| .B bgpd |
| config file. |
| .TP |
| .BI $(PWD)/bgpd.log |
| If the |
| .B bgpd |
| process is config'd to output logs to a file, then you will find this |
| file in the directory where you started \fBbgpd\fR. |
| .SH WARNING |
| This man page is intended to be a quick reference for command line |
| options. The definitive document is the Info file \fBQuagga\fR. |
| .SH DIAGNOSTICS |
| The bgpd process may log to standard output, to a VTY, to a log |
| file, or through syslog to the system logs. \fBbgpd\fR supports many |
| debugging options, see the Info file, or the source for details. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR ripd (8), |
| .BR ripngd (8), |
| .BR ospfd (8), |
| .BR ospf6d (8), |
| .BR isisd (8), |
| .BR zebra (8), |
| .BR vtysh (1) |
| .SH BUGS |
| .B bgpd |
| eats bugs for breakfast. If you have food for the maintainers try |
| .BI http://bugzilla.quagga.net |
| .SH AUTHORS |
| See |
| .BI http://www.zebra.org |
| and |
| .BI http://www.quagga.net |
| or the Info file for an accurate list of authors. |
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