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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:45:11 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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!!Configuration
These notes are for observations on Debian Sarge.
-Quagga uses the files in <tt>/etc/quagga/</tt>. By default, there is only a <tt>daemons</tt> file and a <tt>debian.conf</tt> file. I wanted to use [BGP], so I copied my old <tt>bgpd.conf</tt> from zebra, changed the log file entry in it from <tt>/var/log/zebra/bgpd.log</tt> to <tt>/var/log/quagga/bgpd.log</tt> and made the file readable by the quagga group (since quagga has its own user and group in Debian). I also had to enable ''bgpd=yes'' in the <tt>daemons</tt> file.
+Quagga uses the files in <tt>/etc/quagga/</tt>. By default, there is only a <tt>daemons</tt> file and a <tt>debian.conf</tt> file.
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+You MUST enable ''zebra=yes'' in the <tt>daemons</tt> file if you want any routes to be actually used!
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I wanted to use [BGP], so I copied my old <tt>bgpd.conf</tt> from zebra, changed the log file entry in it from <tt>/var/log/zebra/bgpd.log</tt> to <tt>/var/log/quagga/bgpd.log</tt> and made the file readable by the quagga group (since quagga has its own user and group in Debian). I also had to enable ''bgpd=yes'' in the <tt>daemons</tt> file.
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+Read the notes in the <tt>daemons</tt> file for the necessary file permissions on the *.conf files. In practice, it will work with just __quagga__ group read permissions, but the __quagga__ user needs to be able to write to the file if you want to be able to save configs
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When you use the <tt>vtysh</tt> program, it wants your user's normal login password, not a configured quagga password or anything.
You can create (and configure) an <tt>/etc/quagga/vtysh.conf</tt> file, and give a
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