How To Install bird2 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bird2
on CentOS 7.
What is bird2
BIRD is a dynamic IP routing daemon supporting both, IPv4 and IPv6, Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv4), Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2, RIPng), Open Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2, OSPFv3), Babel Routing Protocol (Babel), Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), IPv6 router advertisements, static routes, inter-table protocol, command-line interface allowing on-line control and inspection of the status of the daemon, soft reconfiguration as well as a powerful language for route filtering.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install bird2
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bird2.
Install bird2 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install bird2
using yum
by running the following command:
Install bird2 on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install bird2
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall bird2 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the bird2
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bird2
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.