About:
GNU Zebra manages IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols. It supports BGP-4 protocol as described in RFC1771 (A Border Gateway Protocol 4) and BGP-4+, RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, OSPFv2 and OSPFv3. GNU Zebra has a good client interface, so the user can change configuration dynamically.

Release focus: N/A

Changes:
IPv4 and IPv6 configuration separation, ripd and ripngd now support IP prefix-list-based filtering, BGP-4+ configuration is now separate from BGP-4 IPv4 configuraiton, OSPF support is much improved, SNMP support is started (but not yet workable), protocol daemons now try to reconnect to zebra when zebra dies, and ripd will reload the configuration file when it receives a HUP signal.

Author:
Kunihiro Ishiguro <kunihiro [at] zebra [dot] org> [contact developer]

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8.59/10.00 (6 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.zebra.org/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.zebra.org/pub/zebra/
Tar/BZ2:
ftp://ftp.zebra.org/pub/zebra/zebra-0.95.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.zebra.org/index.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		No Input/Output (Daemon)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.95	11-Apr-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
0.95	Major bugfixes	11-Apr-2005 07:52
0.94	Minor security fixes	27-Nov-2003 04:55
0.93	Major bugfixes	07-Jul-2002 11:48
0.92	Major bugfixes	17-Aug-2001 05:37
0.91a	Major bugfixes	12-Feb-2001 07:27
0.90	N/A	10-Jan-2001 15:26
0.89	N/A	03-Oct-2000 02:24
0.88	N/A	18-Aug-2000 02:48
0.87	N/A	13-Jun-2000 12:25
0.86	N/A	28-Apr-2000 10:11

 Articles referencing this project

• Red Hat: Updated zebra packages fix several security vulnerabilities
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, Jun 5th 2006 10:07
  
• Debian: New zebra packages fix denial of service
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Tue, Jan 6th 2004 22:45
  
• Red Hat: Updated zebra packages fix security vulnerabilities
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Thu, Nov 13th 2003 06:48
  

 Comments

[»] OSPF doesn't work in my environment
by Shaman - Apr 26th 2000 14:48:43

I have Ascend Max units, talking to Cisco routers, and also 3Com routers (legacy).

OSPF logs are full of:

2000/04/26 14:47:02 OSPF: interface elxl0: ospf_read packet buffer overflow. ip_len 11264 if MTU 1500 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

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[»] Zebra Configuration
by James Willard - Sep 14th 1999 12:36:33

The configuration is very similar to that of a Cisco router. Reading online Cisco documentation should be able to get you up and running with Zebra.

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[»] Any Simple HOWTO on initial configuration?
by fatwater - Aug 27th 1999 12:06:16

Does anyone know of a HOWTO or something to get me started with Zebra. I just don't know where to start.

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