CentOS 7¶

(As an alternative to this installation, you may prefer to create a FRR rpm package yourself and install that package instead. See instructions in redhat/README.rpm_build.md on how to build a rpm package)

CentOS 7 restrictions:¶

MPLS is not supported on CentOS 7 with default kernel. MPLS requires Linux Kernel 4.5 or higher (LDP can be built, but may have limited use without MPLS)

Install required packages¶

Add packages:

sudo yum install git autoconf automake libtool make gawk \
  readline-devel texinfo net-snmp-devel groff pkgconfig \
  json-c-devel pam-devel bison flex pytest c-ares-devel \
  python-devel systemd-devel python-sphinx

The libyang library can be installed from third-party packages available here.

Note: the libyang dev/devel packages need to be installed in addition to the libyang core package in order to build FRR successfully.

For example, for CentOS 7.x:

wget https://ci1.netdef.org/artifact/LIBYANG-YANGRELEASE/shared/build-1/CentOS-7-x86_64-Packages/libyang-0.16.46-0.x86_64.rpm
wget https://ci1.netdef.org/artifact/LIBYANG-YANGRELEASE/shared/build-1/CentOS-7-x86_64-Packages/libyang-devel-0.16.46-0.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -i libyang-0.16.46-0.x86_64.rpm libyang-devel-0.16.46-0.x86_64.rpm

or Ubuntu 18.04:

wget https://ci1.netdef.org/artifact/LIBYANG-YANGRELEASE/shared/build-1/Ubuntu-18.04-x86_64-Packages/libyang-dev_0.16.46_amd64.deb
wget https://ci1.netdef.org/artifact/LIBYANG-YANGRELEASE/shared/build-1/Ubuntu-18.04-x86_64-Packages/libyang_0.16.46_amd64.deb
sudo apt install libpcre3-dev
sudo dpkg -i libyang-dev_0.16.46_amd64.deb libyang_0.16.46_amd64.deb

Alternatively, libyang can be built and installed manually by following the steps below:

git clone https://github.com/opensourcerouting/libyang
cd libyang
git checkout -b tmp origin/tmp
mkdir build; cd build
cmake -DENABLE_LYD_PRIV=ON ..
make
sudo make install

When building libyang on CentOS 6, it’s also necessary to pass the -DENABLE_CACHE=OFF parameter to cmake.

Note: please check the libyang build requirements first.

Get FRR, compile it and install it (from Git)¶

This assumes you want to build and install FRR from source and not using any packages

Add frr groups and user¶

sudo groupadd -g 92 frr
sudo groupadd -r -g 85 frrvty
sudo useradd -u 92 -g 92 -M -r -G frrvty -s /sbin/nologin \
  -c "FRR FRRouting suite" -d /var/run/frr frr

Download Source, configure and compile it¶

(You may prefer different options on configure statement. These are just an example.)

git clone https://github.com/frrouting/frr.git frr
cd frr
./bootstrap.sh
./configure \
    --bindir=/usr/bin \
    --sbindir=/usr/lib/frr \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/frr \
    --libdir=/usr/lib/frr \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib/frr \
    --localstatedir=/var/run/frr \
    --with-moduledir=/usr/lib/frr/modules \
    --enable-snmp=agentx \
    --enable-multipath=64 \
    --enable-user=frr \
    --enable-group=frr \
    --enable-vty-group=frrvty \
    --enable-systemd=yes \
    --disable-exampledir \
    --disable-ldpd \
    --enable-fpm \
    --with-pkg-git-version \
    --with-pkg-extra-version=-MyOwnFRRVersion
make
make check
sudo make install

Create empty FRR configuration files¶

sudo mkdir /var/log/frr
sudo mkdir /etc/frr
sudo touch /etc/frr/zebra.conf
sudo touch /etc/frr/bgpd.conf
sudo touch /etc/frr/ospfd.conf
sudo touch /etc/frr/ospf6d.conf
sudo touch /etc/frr/isisd.conf
sudo touch /etc/frr/ripd.conf
sudo touch /etc/frr/ripngd.conf
sudo touch /etc/frr/pimd.conf
sudo touch /etc/frr/nhrpd.conf
sudo touch /etc/frr/eigrpd.conf
sudo touch /etc/frr/babeld.conf
sudo chown -R frr:frr /etc/frr/
sudo touch /etc/frr/vtysh.conf
sudo chown frr:frrvty /etc/frr/vtysh.conf
sudo chmod 640 /etc/frr/*.conf

Install daemon config file¶

sudo install -p -m 644 redhat/daemons /etc/frr/
sudo chown frr:frr /etc/frr/daemons

Edit /etc/frr/daemons as needed to select the required daemons¶

Look for the section with watchfrr_enable=... and zebra=... etc. Enable the daemons as required by changing the value to yes

Enable IP & IPv6 forwarding¶

Create a new file /etc/sysctl.d/90-routing-sysctl.conf with the following content:

# Sysctl for routing
#
# Routing: We need to forward packets
net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1

Load the modifed sysctl’s on the system:

sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/90-routing-sysctl.conf

Install frr Service and redhat init files¶

sudo install -p -m 644 redhat/frr.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/frr.service
sudo install -p -m 755 redhat/frr.init /usr/lib/frr/frr

Register the systemd files¶

sudo systemctl preset frr.service

Enable required frr at startup¶

sudo systemctl enable frr

Reboot or start FRR manually¶

sudo systemctl start frr