./configure
make
sudo make install
That's it. By default, it went into /usr/local/. I have Debian 4 (Etch) with 2.6.8 kernel and a lot of development packages installed. The only thing I had to do was to add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf file and run /sbin/ldconfig.
Here is the setup
Now I need a valid configuration file for Quagga BGP. Adding 300000 network statements manually is not something system administrators do on Linux. Hence, here is the script
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $host="quagga-host"; #quagga router name
my $logpass="zebra"; #login password
my $enable="zebra"; #enable password
my $myasn="65099"; #local AS number
my $router_id="172.31.2.2"; #bgp router-id
my $remote_as="65001"; #remote-as number
my $remote_ip="172.31.2.1"; #BGP neighbor ip address
my $route_count=0;
my $max_routes=300000; #max number of routers to generate
open (BGPCONF,'>bgpd.conf')|| die "Can not open bgpd.conf for writing";
print BGPCONF "hostname $host\npassword $logpass\nenable password $enable\nline vty \n";
print BGPCONF "router bgp $myasn\n bgp router-id $router_id\n neighbor $remote_ip remote-as $remote_as\n";
MAXR: while ($route_count <= $max_routes ) {
$octet1=int(rand(223))+1; #generate 1st octet randomly in 1-223 range, 224 and up is multicust and class E
if ($octet1 ==127) {next;} #need to make sure that 127.X.X.0/24 is excluded $octet2=0;
while ( $octet2 <= 255 ){
$octet3=0;
while ( $octet3 <= 255 ) {
print BGPCONF " network $octet1\.$octet2\.$octet3\.0/24\n";
$octet3++;
$route_count++;
if ($route_count == $max_routes) {last MAXR;}
}
$octet2++;
}
}
close BGPCONF;
this script will generate bgpd.conf for Quagga. Since it is lab environment not connected to any real network, I do not really care about zebra configuration or restricting access to Quagga BGP console. Copy bgpd.conf file into /usr/local/etc and run /usr/local/sbin/bgpd -d -f /usr/local/etc/bgpd.conf -u root -g root Again, this is not production environment. Do not run Quagga as root in production. Here is relevant configuration from Cisco router: interface GigabitEthernet0/0 ip address 172.31.2.1 255.255.255.0 network 172.31.2.0 mask 255.255.255.0 media-type rj45 negotiation auto ! router bgp 65001 no synchronization bgp log-neighbor-changes neighbor 172.31.2.2 remote-as 65099 no auto-summary !Let's see if it works. On Linux host:
sh-2.05b$ telnet localhost 2605 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. Hello, this is Quagga (version 0.98.6). Copyright 1996-2005 Kunihiro Ishiguro, et al. User Access Verification Password: quagga-host> sho ip bgp summ BGP router identifier 172.31.2.2, local AS number 65099 2 BGP AS-PATH entries 0 BGP community entries Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd 172.31.2.1 4 65001 283 606 0 0 0 03:41:55 1 Total number of neighbors 1 quagga-host>on Cisco:
R1#sho ip bgp sum BGP router identifier 192.0.2.2, local AS number 65001 BGP table version is 330002, main routing table version 330002 310001 network entries using 40920132 bytes of memory 310001 path entries using 16120052 bytes of memory 3/2 BGP path/bestpath attribute entries using 444 bytes of memory 1 BGP AS-PATH entries using 24 bytes of memory 0 BGP route-map cache entries using 0 bytes of memory 0 BGP filter-list cache entries using 0 bytes of memory Bitfield cache entries: current 1 (at peak 2) using 32 bytes of memory BGP using 57040684 total bytes of memory BGP activity 310001/0 prefixes, 320001/10000 paths, scan interval 60 secs Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd 172.31.2.2 4 65099 602 322 330002 0 0 03:38:59 310000Yep. It works.
When entering configuration mode, this new option allows you to request confirmation (a confirmation time limit must be supplied) of the configuration changes. 
