This document aims to summarize current status of “Quagga/Zebra” and its history, and not to be “How To” guide using Quagga.

1. Quagga & Zebra
Overview as of 2015/10/17
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2. • This document aims to summarize current status of “Quagga/Zebra”
and its history, and not to be “How To” guide using Quagga.
• There are many other documents / sites explaining more technical
details. i.e. installation, commands and configuration guide.
• Check links on slide “More Information about Quagga” or search
Internet for such information.
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About This Document

3. About Quagga
A descendant of Zebra
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4. About Quagga
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Quagga, a descendant of Zebra
From: http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/

5. About Quagga
• Quagga/Zebra is a “Routing Engine” and not “Router”.
• Other functionalities required to build “Router” should be provided
outside of Quagga/Zebra.
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Routing Engine != Router
Boot Loader
Boot Image Manager
Hardware
Management
Kernel
Routing
Protocol
Daemons
User
Interface
Routing Table
Management
Stats / Status
(SNMP, Syslog)
Routing
Protocol
Daemons
Routing
Protocol
Daemons
Network Interface Cards. FPGA, ASIC, Network Processor for offload.
Other Router
Functionalities
(ACL etc.)
vtysh
zebra
daemon
Other examples of “Routing Engine”
BIRD http://bird.network.cz/
XORP http://www.xorp.org/
OpenBGPD http://www.openbgpd.org/

6. About Quagga
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Protocols supported by Quagga
Reference: http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/
• Support for OSPFv3 and IS-IS is various beta states currently
• IS-IS for IPv4 is believed to be usable while OSPFv3 and IS-IS for IPv6 have known issues.
Supported
Natively by Quagga
Not Supported
Natively by Quagga

7. About Quagga
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History of Quagga / Zebra
• 1996 : Zebra Project (Open Source Software)
• Kunihiro Ishiguro realized the need for quality routing
software.
• He started “Zebra Project” and created the world's
first OSS routing engine software.
• 1999 : ZebOS, Commercial version of Zebra.
• “IP Infusion” was founded to provide commercial
version of Zebra, ZebOS.
• Co-Founders: Kunihiro Ishiguro, Yoshinari Yoshikawa.
• ZebOS is being used in various commercial network
equipment.
• 2005 : Quagga forked from Zebra Project.
• Zebra Project was discontinued from various reasons.
• Quagga was forked from Zebra to continue updates.
• 2011 : OSR was formed to host Quagga (*1)
• OpenSourceRouting (OSR) started in 2011 by an
initiative of the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC,
www.isc.org) and Google.
• Objective was to help develop a robust and tested
alternative network stack and re-ignite the open
source community behind Quagga.
• 2014 : NetDEF Takes Ownership of OSR (*2)
• In early 2014, ISC transferred the OpenSourceRouting
project to the Network Device Education Foundation
(NetDEF, www.netdef.org), a non-profit corporation
based in the Silicon Valley.
(*1) https://www.opensourcerouting.org/about-us/
(*2) https://www.netdef.org/2014/03/netdef-takes-ownership-of-the-opensourcerouting-project/

8. About Quagga
• Open Source Routing (OSR)
• https://www.opensourcerouting.org/
• Started on 2011 by joint initiative of ISC and Google.
• ISC: Internet Systems Consortium (www.isc.org)
• Moved under NetDEF on 2014.
• Current Sponsors (public)
• https://www.opensourcerouting.org/sponsorship/sponsors/
• Cumulus Networks
• Google
• Network Device Education Foundation, Inc. (NetDEF)
• https://www.netdef.org/about-netdef/
• not for profit 501(c)(3) Corporation formed in February of 2013.
• Has a few other networking related project under it.
• Quagga
• Network Device Analysis
• RouteFlow
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Open Source Routing & NetDEF

9. About Quagga
• From “Savannah” download.
• http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/quagga/
• Linked from official http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/
• Most likely the latest one.
• From Cumulus GitHub
• https://github.com/CumulusNetworks/quagga
• Some more patches addition to Savannah.
• From OSR
• https://github.com/opensourcerouting/quagga
• Repository for opensourcerouting.org Testing & Development.
• A bit old and should get from “Savannah”.
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Where can I find the code?

10. About Quagga
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More Information about Quagga
• Quagga Documents
• http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/docs.html
• Quagga Info pages
• included with Quagga package
• HACKING - Conventions for working on Quagga
• netDEF OpenSourceRouting
• https://wiki.netdef.org/display/osr/Home
• “Conference Presentations” available to
understand overview of Quagga and other
routing engines.
• Install Quagga - CheatSheet - (on Slide share)
• Installation cheat sheet for different Linux
distributions.
• http://www.slideshare.net/naotomatsumoto/qu
agga-install-cheatsheet
• Zebra Hacking How-To
• http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/zhh.html
• Pretty out dated (*) but the only document
available.
• (*) based on Zebra 0.91, not Quagga, on 2001.
• Worth reading before diving into source
code.
• Mailing lists
• http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/lists.html
• Quagga Users
• Quagga Dev
.

11. Appendix
• Interesting Usages.
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12. Interesting Usages
• Interesting use case of using Quagga with OpenFlow Switch was
presented at ONS2014. (March 6, 2014)
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Quagga with OpenFlow
https://www.opensourcerouting.org/2014/03/ons-2014-quagga-with-openflow/
• Flyer available on below link for more details.
https://www.opensourcerouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Flyer-ONS_Network_Config.pdf