What is Quagga?

GNU Quagga is free software which manages TCP/IP based routing protocols. It supports BGP4, BGP4+, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, IS-IS, RIPv1, RIPv2, and RIPng.

As the precessor Zebra has been considered orphaned, the Quagga project has been formed by members of the zebra mailing list and the former zebra-pj project to continue development.

Quagga uses threading if the kernel supports it, but can also run on kernels that do not support threading. Each protocol has its own daemon.

It is more than a routed replacement, it can be used as a Route Server and a Route Reflector.

What is different from the official Debian package?

This version is stripped down, has some default configuration files, no vtysh support an so forth.

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