How To Install quagga on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quagga on CentOS 7.
What is quagga
Quagga is free software that operates TCP/IP-based routing protocols. It takes a multi-server and multi-threaded approach to resolving the current complexity of the Internet. Quagga supports Babel, BGP4, BGP4+, BGP4-, IS-IS (experimental), OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIPv1, RIPv2, and RIPng. Quagga is intended to be used as a Route Server and a Route Reflector. It is not a toolkit; it provides full routing power under a new architecture. Quagga by design has a process for each protocol. Quagga is a fork of GNU Zebra. Quagga is free software that operates TCP/IP-based routing protocols. It takes a multi-server and multi-threaded approach to resolving the current complexity of the Internet. Quagga supports Babel, BGP4, BGP4+, BGP4-, IS-IS (experimental), OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIPv1, RIPv2, and RIPng. Quagga is intended to be used as a Route Server and a Route Reflector. It is not a toolkit; it provides full routing power under a new architecture. Quagga by design has a process for each protocol. Quagga is a fork of GNU Zebra.
We can use yum or dnf to install quagga on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quagga.
Install quagga on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install quagga using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install quagga
Install quagga 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install quagga using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install quagga
How To Uninstall quagga on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the quagga package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove quagga
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quagga on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.