Quagga (software)
Quagga is a network routing software suite providing implementations of Open Shortest Path First, Routing Information Protocol, Border Gateway Protocol and IS-IS for Unix-like platforms, particularly Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Quagga is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2.
In April 2017, FRRouting forked from Quagga aiming for a more open and faster development.
Name
The project takes its name from the quagga, an extinct sub-species of the African zebra. Quagga is a fork of the GNU Zebra project which was developed by Kunihiro Ishiguro and which was discontinued in 2005. The Quagga tree aims to build a more involved community for Quagga than the centralized development-model which GNU Zebra followed.Components
The Quagga architecture consists of a core daemon which is an abstraction layer to the underlying Unix kernel and presents the Zserv API over a Unix-domain socket or TCP socket to Quagga clients. The Zserv clients typically implement a routing protocol and communicate routing updates to the zebra daemon. Existing Zserv clients are:- ospfd, implementing Open Shortest Path First
- isisd, implementing Intermediate System to Intermediate System
- ripd, implementing Routing Information Protocol version 1 and 2;
- ospf6d, implementing Open Shortest Path First for IPv6
- ripngd, implementing Routing Information Protocol for IPv6
- bgpd, implementing Border Gateway Protocol, including address family support for IP multicast and IPv6
- pimd, implementing Protocol Independent Multicast for Source-specific multicast