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FIB manipulation

This page explains how to perform FIB manipulation; kernel routing table updates, interface lookups, and redistribution of routes between different routing protocols. GoBGP uses zebra included in Quagga or FRRouting.

Prerequisites

Assume you finished Getting Started and installing Quagga or FRRouting on the same host with GoBGP.

Note: For the integration with FRRouting, version 3.0.x (Zebra API version 4), 5.0.x (Zebra API version 5), and 7.0.x (Zebra API version 6) are supported as default. FRRouting version 5.0.x changes zebra message and it doesn't keep backward compatibility for FRRouting version 4.0.x although FRRouting version 4.0.x and 5.0.x use Zebra API version 5. Also, FRRouting version 7.0.x and 7.1.x changes zebra message and it doesn't keep backward compatibility for FRRouting version 6.0.x although FRRouting version 6.0.x, 7.0.x and 7.1.x use Zebra API version 6. If you need to integrate with FRRouting version 4.0.x or 6.0x, please use software-name configuration.

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Configuration

You need to enable the zebra feature in the Global configuration as follows.

[zebra]
    [zebra.config]
        enabled = true
        url = "unix:/var/run/quagga/zserv.api"
        redistribute-route-type-list = ["connect"]
        version = 2

  • url specifies the path to the unix domain socket or the TCP port for connecting to Zebra API. If omitted, GoBGP will use "unix:/var/run/quagga/zserv.api" by the default. Please note that with FRRouting, the path to the unix domain socket would be like "unix:/var/run/frr/zserv.api". To specify the TCP port, url value would be like "tcp:192.168.24.1:2600".

  • redistribute-route-type-list specifies which route types you want to receive from Zebra daemon. For example, with ["connect"], GoBGP will receive the connected routes and redistribute them.

  • version specifies Zebra API version. 2 is the version used by Quagga on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. To enable the Next-Hop Tracking features, please specify 3 or later. For connecting to FRRouting 3.0.x, please specify 4. For connecting to FRRouting 5.0.x, please specify 5. For connecting to FRRouting 7.0.x, please specify 6.

  • mpls-label-range-size specifies mpls label range size for requesting to Zebra. It works with FRRouting 5.0.x, FRRouting 6.0.x, FRRouting 7.0.x and FRRouting 7.1.x.

  • sotware-name specifies software name for zebra when only version configuration cannot specify software uniquely. This configuration is used with 'version' configuration. For connecting to FRRouting 7.1.x, please specify 6 as version and frr7.1 as software-name. For connecting to FRRouting 6.0.x, please specify 6 as version and frr6 as software-name. For connecting to FRRouting 4.0.x, please specify 5 as version and frr4 as software-name.

Check Routes from zebra

Zebra has 3 connected routes in this example's environment.

  • 172.16.1.100/30
  • 172.16.6.100/30
  • 192.168.31.0/24

Let's check these routes with GoBGP cli.

$ gobgp global rib
    Network              Next Hop             AS_PATH              Age        Attrs
*>  172.16.1.100/30      0.0.0.0                                   00:00:02   [{Origin: i} {Med: 1}]
*>  172.16.6.100/30      0.0.0.0                                   00:00:02   [{Origin: i} {Med: 1}]
*>  192.168.31.0/24      0.0.0.0                                   00:00:02   [{Origin: i} {Med: 1}]

You can see connected routes stored in the GoBGP global rib.