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Use Zebra to set up a Linux BGP/OSPF router

I was looking for some Linux router information last night...

I found the LPR project of course but Zebra is just what the doctor
ordered to bring a Linux router into the mainstream;-)

I work with routers a fair bit... I am VERY impressed with what Zebra
can do. I had it up and running in very short time!

Dear Sirs,

Can I use the Linux router in a WAN envirement? As you know we actually use router to connect WAN & LAN, but your example just show the Ethernet interface. Do we need a WAN interface card such as V.35 interface?


Mike

it must be an interface recognized by the kernel.

I purchased a wonderful book titled 'Linux Routers' 'A Primer for Network Administers' written by Tony Mancill about a year ago. I had used Linux for a little while at this time, but I wasn't up to speed on using Linux for much more than a workstation. The book was very helpful to me in getting a Linux Router setup and running properly. This book is, where I first heard about Zebra. It was fairly easy to setup and get running. The book mentioned above has a chapter on WAN routing. There are 4 WAN interface cards listed in the book by the author. One by a company named 'Emerging Technologies' with their web site www.etinc.com, the book states that this company uses zebra on their Linux Routers. Pretty cool eh! The book has several chapters dealing with different uses for a Linux Router. I recommend it wholeheartily for anyone desiring to learn Linux Routing, or routing in general.

G'Day!

Could you post the ISBN of the book? Thanks!

Also (For ANYbody out there), anyone know of any info about useing this software as a "dual-wan" configuration?

Example: 2 active cable modems going into the router/box (Doing load balencing) with 1 NIC going to the LAN to share the banwith of the 2? Just curious

Thanks again!

Some of us still run Novell using IPX/SPX over the WAN,
I found no referance to IPX on the Zebra site, even though Linux supports IPX,

Does anyone know how I can use Zebra with IPX?
(the same problem would be with AppleTalk)

please don't say: convert the server/client protocol to IP, that would be a lot of work.

As such Zebra can't cut it as a substitute for the cisco routers on my WAN.

Here is a list of Supported routing protocols for Zebra.

bgpd Manages BGP-4 and BGP-4+ protocol
ripd Manages RIPv1, v2 protocol
ripngd Manages RIPng protocol
ospfd Manages OSPFv2 protocol
ospf6d Manages OSPFv3 protocol
zebra for Kernel routing table update and routing information redistribution between above protocols

If you use one of the above, you shouldn't have any problems...

I noticed in your example that ospf does not have AS Number. Is that correct? This look like a very good solution. Instead of spending thousands on cisco equipment use Linux and Zebra which will be very inexpensive.
plenty of kudos to you on this article, and much more to linux and zebra which can a company millions.