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NAME

       frr-zebra - a routing manager for use with associated FRRouting components.

SYNOPSIS

       zebra [-h] [-v]

       zebra  [-d|-t|-dt]  [-C]  [-f  config-file]  [-i pid-file] [-z zclient-path] [-u user] [-g
       group] [-A vty-addr] [-P vty-port]  [-M  module[:options]]  [-N  pathspace]  [--vty_socket
       vty-path] [--moduledir module-path]

DESCRIPTION

       zebra  is  a  routing  manager  that implements the zebra route engine. zebra supports all
       protocol daemons in the FRRouting suite.

OPTIONS

       OPTIONS available for the zebra command:

   HELP AND VERSION
       -h, --help
              Print a short description of the daemon's command line options.

       -v, --version
              Print version and build information for the daemon.

       Both of these options inhibit normal operation and will immediately exit.

   PROCESS CONTROL
       These options control background operation:

       -d, --daemon
                 Launches the process in background/daemon mode, forking and detaching  from  the
                 terminal.

              The  parent  process  will  delay  its exit until the daemon/child has finished its
              initialization and has entered its main loop. This is important for  zebra  startup
              because  the other daemons will attempt to connect to zebra. A return from zebra -d
              guarantees its readiness to accept these connections.

       -t, --terminal
              Opens an interactive VTY session on the  terminal,  allowing  for  both  state  and
              configuration  operations.   Note  that the terminal starts operating after startup
              has completed and the configuration file has been loaded.

              The process will exit when end of file is detected on the terminal.  It is possible
              to  daemonize  a process started with -t (but without -d) by sending SIGQUIT to the
              process (normally mapped to a ^keypress.)

       The combination of  --daemon  and  --terminal  will  delay  the  daemon  from  going  into
       background until the terminal session ends (by end of file.)

       If  the process receives SIGINT (e.g. a ^C keypress) in this mode, it will exit instead of
       daemonizing.

       It is safe to suspend (SIGTSTP / ^Z) the terminal  session  opened  by  the  previous  two
       options;   this will only stop the terminal but not the protocol daemon itself (which runs
       in a separate second process.)

   CONFIGURATION AND PATHS
       The following options control configuration and file system locations for frr processes:

       -f, --config_file config-file
              Specify   a   configuration   file   to   be   used   instead   of   the    default
              /etc/frr/<daemon>.conf file.

              Note  that  the daemon will attempt to write to this file if the write file command
              is issued on its VTY interface or through vtysh.

       -C, --dryrun
              Load the configuration file and check its validity, then exit.

       -i, --pid_file pid-file
              Output a pid file to a location other than the default /var/run/frr/<daemon>.pid.

       -z, --socket zclient-path
              Override the path of the ZAPI socket used to  communicate  between  zebra  and  the
              various protocol daemons. The default is /var/run/frr/zserv.api.  The value of this
              option must be the same across all daemons.

       -N, --pathspace pathspace
              Insert pathspace into all default paths, changing the defaults to:

              /etc/frr/pathspace/<daemon>.conf                /var/run/frr/pathspace/<daemon>.pid
              /var/run/frr/pathspace/<daemon>.vty /var/run/frr/pathspace/zserv.api

              ´.´ and ´/´ characters will not be accepted in pathspace, but the empty string will
              be accepted.

              Note that this only changes the respective  defaults,  it  has  no  effect  on  the
              respective path if the -f, -i, -z or --vty_socket options are used.

              The purpose of this option is to easily group all file system related bits together
              for running multiple fully-separate "logical routers"  on  a  system,  particularly
              with  Linux  network namespaces.  Groups of daemons running with distinct pathspace
              values will be completely unaware of each other and not interact in any way.

              This option does not do any system setup (like network namespaces.)  This  must  be
              done by the user, for example by running:

              ip netns exec namespace <daemon> -N namespace

   PROCESS CREDENTIALS
       -u, --user user
              (default: frr)

       -g, --group group
              (default: frr)

              Change the user/group which the daemon will switch to.

       -S, --skip_runas
              Skip setting the process effective user and group.

       Note  that there is an additional group, frrvty, which controls group ownership of the VTY
       sockets.  The name of this group cannot currently be changed, and user must be a member of
       this group.

   VTY SETUP
       These  following  options  control  the daemon's VTY (interactive command line) interface.
       The interface is available over TCP, using the telnet protocol, as  well  as  through  the
       vtysh frontend.

       -A, --vty_addr vty-addr
              Specify  an  IP/IPv6  address  to  bind  the TCP VTY interface to.  It is generally
              recommended to specify ::1 or 127.0.0.1.  For reasons of  backwards  compatibility,
              the default is to listen on all interfaces.

       -P, --vty_port vty-port
              Override  the  daemon's  default  TCP VTY port (each daemon has a different default
              value upwards of 2600, listed below.)  Specifying 0 disables the TCP VTY interface.

              Default ports are::

                 zebra           2601
                 ripd            2602
                 ripngd          2603
                 ospfd           2604
                 bgpd            2605
                 ospf6d          2606
                 isisd           2608
                 babeld          2609
                 nhrpd           2610
                 pimd            2611
                 ldpd            2612
                 eigrpd          2613
                 pbrd            2615
                 staticd         2616
                 bfdd            2617
                 fabricd         2618
                 vrrpd           2619

              Port 2607 is used for ospfd's Opaque LSA API.

       --vty_socket vty-path
              Overrides the directory used for the <daemon>.vty sockets.  vtysh connects to these
              sockets in order to access each daemon's VTY.  Default: /var/run/frr[/<pathspace>]

              NB: Unlike the other options, this option specifies a directory, not a full path.

              This  option  is  primarily  used  by  the SNAP packaging system, its semantics may
              change.  It should not be necessary in most other scenarios.

   MODULE LOADING
       frr supports optional dynamically loadable modules, although these can only be  loaded  at
       startup.   The  set  of  available modules may vary across distributions and packages, and
       modules may be available for installation as separate packages.

       -M, --module module[:options]
              Load a module named module, optionally passing options to it.

              If there is a ´/´ character in module, the value is assumed to be a pathname  to  a
              module.

              If  there  is  no ´/´ character, the module directory (see next option) is searched
              first for a module named  "<daemon>_<module>.so",  then  for  "<module>.so".   This
              allows for a module to exist in variations appropriate for particular daemons, e.g.
              zebra_snmp and bgp_snmp, with the correct one selected by -M snmp.

              The meaning of options is specific  to  the  module  being  loaded.   Most  modules
              currently ignore it.

              Modules  are  loaded  in  the  order  as  listed  on the command line.  This is not
              generally relevant.

       --moduledir module-path
              Look  for  modules  in  the  module-path   directory   instead   of   the   default
              /usr/lib/frr/modules.  (This path is not affected by the -N option.)

       The list of loaded modules can be inspected at runtime with the show modules VTY command.

       -b, --batch
              Runs in batch mode, zebra parses its config and exits.

       -k, --keep_kernel
              On startup, don't delete self inserted routes.

       -s, --nl-bufsize <netlink-buffer-size>
              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 < 2.6.14
              doesn't    allow    increasing    it    over    maximum    value     defined     in
              /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max.  If  you  want  to do it, you have to increase maximum
              before starting zebra.

              Note that this affects Linux only.

       -n, --vrfwnetns
              Enable namespace VRF backend. By  default,  the  VRF  backend  relies  on  VRF-lite
              support  from the Linux kernel. This option permits discovering Linux named network
              namespaces and mapping it to FRR VRF contexts.

   ROUTES
       -r, --retain
              When the program terminates, do not  flush  routes  installed  by  zebra  from  the
              kernel.

FILES

       /usr/lib/frr/zebra
              The default location of the zebra binary.

       /etc/frr/zebra.conf
              The default location of the zebra config file.

       $(PWD)/zebra.log
              If  the  zebra  process  is configured to output logs to a file, then you will find
              this file in the directory where you started zebra.

WARNING

       This man page is intended to be a quick reference for command line options. The definitive
       document  is the info file frr 7.2.1 or the documentation available on the project website
       at https://frrouting.org/.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The daemon may log to standard output, to a VTY, to a log file, or through syslog  to  the
       system  logs.  FRR  supports many debugging options, see the Info file, web docs or source
       for details.

SEE ALSO

       frr-zebra(8),   vtysh(1),   frr-ripd(8),   frr-ripngd(8),   frr-ospfd(8),   frr-ospf6d(8),
       frr-bgpd(8),   frr-isisd(8),   frr-babeld(8),   frr-nhrpd(8),   frr-pimd(8),  frr-pbrd(8),
       frr-ldpd(8), frr-eigrpd(8),  frr-staticd(8),  frr-fabricd(8),  frr-vrrpd(8),  mtracebis(8)
       https://frrouting.org/

BUGS

       FRR  eats  bugs  for  breakfast.  If  you  have  food for the maintainers, please email <‐
       dev@lists.frrouting.org>.

COPYRIGHT

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