How To Install cgdcbxd on Fedora 34

cgdcbxd is DCB network priority management daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cgdcbxd on Fedora 34.

What is `cgdcbxd`

This is a daemon to manage the priority of network traffic in dcb enabled environments. By using the information exchanged over the dcbx protocol on a LAN, this package will enforce network priority on running applications on your host using the net_prio cgroup

We can use yum or dnf to install cgdcbxd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cgdcbxd.

Install cgdcbxd on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cgdcbxd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cgdcbxd

Install cgdcbxd on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cgdcbxd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cgdcbxd

How To Uninstall cgdcbxd on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the cgdcbxd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cgdcbxd

cgdcbxd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/5c55d5f07714ede546a533b549cc353d9094e9
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cgdcbxd.service
/usr/sbin/cgdcbxd
/usr/share/doc/cgdcbxd
/usr/share/doc/cgdcbxd/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/cgdcbxd.8.gz

References

cgdcbxd website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cgdcbxd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.