doc/bgpd.8

   1 .TH BGPD 8 "25 November 2004" "Quagga BGPD daemon" "Version 0.97.3"
   2 .SH NAME
   3 bgpd \- a BGPv4, BGPv4\+, BGPv4\- routing engine for use with Quagga routing
   4 software
   5
   6 .SH SYNOPSIS
   7 .B bgpd
   8 [
   9 .B \-dhrv
  10 ] [
  11 .B \-f
  12 .I config-file
  13 ] [
  14 .B \-i
  15 .I pid-file
  16 ] [
  17 .B \-p
  18 .I bgp-port-number
  19 ] [
  20 .B \-P
  21 .I port-number
  22 ] [
  23 .B \-A
  24 .I vty-address
  25 ] [
  26 .B \-u
  27 .I user
  28 ] [
  29 .B \-g
  30 .I group
  31 ]
  32 .SH DESCRIPTION
  33 .B bgpd
  34 is a routing component that works with the
  35 .B Quagga
  36 routing engine.
  37 .SH OPTIONS
  38 Options available for the
  39 .B bgpd
  40 command:
  41 .TP
  42 \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-daemon\fR
  43 Runs in daemon mode, forking and exiting from tty.
  44 .TP
  45 \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-config-file \fR\fIconfig-file\fR
  46 Specifies the config file to use for startup. If not specified this
  47 option will likely default to \fB\fI/usr/local/etc/bgpd.conf\fR.
  48 .TP
  49 \fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-group \fR\fIgroup\fR
  50 Specify the group to run as. Default is \fIquagga\fR.
  51 .TP
  52 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
  53 A brief message.
  54 .TP
  55 \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-pid_file \fR\fIpid-file\fR
  56 When bgpd starts its process identifier is written to
  57 \fB\fIpid-file\fR.  The init system uses the recorded PID to stop or
  58 restart bgpd.  The likely default is \fB\fI/var/run/bgpd.pid\fR.
  59 .TP
  60 \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-bgp_port \fR\fIbgp-port-number\fR
  61 Set the port that bgpd will listen to for bgp data.
  62 .TP
  63 \fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-vty_port \fR\fIport-number\fR
  64 Specify the port that the bgpd VTY will listen on. This defaults to
  65 2605, as specified in \fI/etc/services\fR.
  66 .TP
  67 \fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-vty_addr \fR\fIvty-address\fR
  68 Specify the address that the bgpd VTY will listen on. Default is all
  69 interfaces.
  70 .TP
  71 \fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-user \fR\fIuser\fR
  72 Specify the user to run as. Default is \fIquagga\fR.
  73 .TP
  74 \fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-retain\fR
  75 When the program terminates, retain routes added by \fBbgpd\fR.
  76 .TP
  77 \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
  78 Print the version and exit.
  79 .SH FILES
  80 .TP
  81 .BI /usr/local/sbin/bgpd
  82 The default location of the
  83 .B bgpd
  84 binary.
  85 .TP
  86 .BI /usr/local/etc/bgpd.conf
  87 The default location of the
  88 .B bgpd
  89 config file.
  90 .TP
  91 .BI $(PWD)/bgpd.log
  92 If the
  93 .B bgpd
  94 process is config'd to output logs to a file, then you will find this
  95 file in the directory where you started \fBbgpd\fR.
  96 .SH WARNING
  97 This man page is intended to be a quick reference for command line
  98 options. The definitive document is the Info file \fBQuagga\fR.
  99 .SH DIAGNOSTICS
 100 The bgpd process may log to standard output, to a VTY, to a log
 101 file, or through syslog to the system logs. \fBbgpd\fR supports many
 102 debugging options, see the Info file, or the source for details.
 103 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 104 .BR ripd (8),
 105 .BR ripngd (8),
 106 .BR ospfd (8),
 107 .BR ospf6d (8),
 108 .BR isisd (8),
 109 .BR zebra (8),
 110 .BR vtysh (1)
 111 .SH BUGS
 112 .B bgpd
 113 eats bugs for breakfast. If you have food for the maintainers try
 114 .BI http://bugzilla.quagga.net
 115 .SH AUTHORS
 116 See
 117 .BI http://www.zebra.org
 118 and
 119 .BI http://www.quagga.net
 120 or the Info file for an accurate list of authors.
 121