| .TH ZEBRA 8 "25 November 2004" "Zebra daemon" "Version 0.97.3" |
| .SH NAME |
| zebra \- a routing manager for use with associated Quagga components. |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B zebra |
| [ |
| .B \-bdhklrv |
| ] [ |
| .B \-f |
| .I config-file |
| ] [ |
| .B \-i |
| .I pid-file |
| ] [ |
| .B \-P |
| .I port-number |
| ] [ |
| .B \-A |
| .I vty-address |
| ] [ |
| .B \-u |
| .I user |
| ] [ |
| .B \-g |
| .I group |
| ] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B zebra |
| is a routing manager that implements the |
| .B zebra |
| route engine. |
| .B zebra |
| supports RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, OSPF, OSPF6, IS-IS, BGP4+, and BGP4-. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| Options available for the |
| .B zebra |
| command: |
| .TP |
| \fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-batch\fR |
| Runs in batch mode, \fBzebra\fR parses its config and exits. |
| .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/zebra.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 zebra starts its process identifier is written to |
| \fB\fIpid-file\fR. The init system uses the recorded PID to stop or |
| restart zebra. The likely default is \fB\fI/var/run/zebra.pid\fR. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-keep_kernel\fR |
| On startup, don't delete self inserted routes. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-vty_port \fR\fIport-number\fR |
| Specify the port that the zebra VTY will listen on. This defaults to |
| 2601, as specified in \fB\fI/etc/services\fR. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-vty_addr \fR\fIvty-address\fR |
| Specify the address that the zebra 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 \fBzebra\fR. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-nl-bufsize \fR\fInetlink-buffer-size\fR |
| Set netlink receive buffer size. There are cases where zebra daemon can't |
| handle flood of netlink messages from kernel. If you ever see "recvmsg overrun" |
| messages in zebra log, you are in trouble. |
| |
| Solution is to increase receive buffer of netlink socket. Note that kernel |
| doesn't allow to increase it over maximum value defined in |
| \fI/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max\fR. If you want to do it, you have to increase |
| maximum before starting zebra. |
| |
| Note that this affects Linux only. |
| .TP |
| \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR |
| Print the version and exit. |
| .SH FILES |
| .TP |
| .BI /usr/local/sbin/zebra |
| The default location of the |
| .B zebra |
| binary. |
| .TP |
| .BI /usr/local/etc/zebra.conf |
| The default location of the |
| .B zebra |
| config file. |
| .TP |
| .BI $(PWD)/zebra.log |
| If the |
| .B zebra |
| process is config'd to output logs to a file, then you will find this |
| file in the directory where you started \fBzebra\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 zebra process may log to standard output, to a VTY, to a log |
| file, or through syslog to the system logs. \fBzebra\fR supports many |
| debugging options, see the Info file, or the source for details. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR bgpd (8), |
| .BR ripd (8), |
| .BR ripngd (8), |
| .BR ospfd (8), |
| .BR ospf6d (8), |
| .BR isisd (8), |
| .BR vtysh (1) |
| .SH BUGS |
| .B zebra |
| 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. |
| |