How To Install ziffy on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ziffy in Fedora 36. ziffy is CLI tool to triangulate switches that are not operating correctly as PTP Transparent Clocks.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ziffy on Fedora 36.

What is `ziffy`

CLI tool to triangulate datacenter switches that are not operating correctly as PTP Transparent Clocks. Ziffy sends PTP SYNC/DELAY_REQ packets between two hosts to get data about the topology. It supports sending packets from a range of source ports to encourage hashing of traffic over multiple paths. In case the hashing is done using only destination IP and source IP, Ziffy can target multiple IPs in the same /64 prefix as the destination.

We can use yum or dnf to install ziffy on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ziffy.

Install ziffy on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install ziffy

Install ziffy on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install ziffy

How To Uninstall ziffy on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ziffy

ziffy Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/ziffy
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/9af22adcc9ceb37575c5b684dba4d2fe11e43f
/usr/share/doc/ziffy
/usr/share/doc/ziffy/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ziffy
/usr/share/licenses/ziffy/LICENSE

References

ziffy website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ziffy on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).