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A lot of people tend to use Quagga these days when they need a Linux machine to participate in a routing network. Quagga's growth in the last year or so has been huge, seeing development of many new features as well as a lot of code cleanups.
A Quagga is a now extinct creature that is closely related to a Zebra.
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+!!Configuration
+These notes are for observations on Debian Sarge.
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+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
+<pre>
+ <tt>log file /var/log/quagga/vtysh.log</tt>
+</pre>
+entry. Note that the <tt>username ''user password''</tt> given in the example config file doesn't seem to do anything.
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+I think you need to have have "<tt>line vty</tt>" entries in each daemon's config file.
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+There are example files in <tt>/usr/share/doc/quagga/examples</tt>.
