Ubuntu 14.04LTS¶

MPLS is not supported on Ubuntu 14.04 with default kernel. MPLS requires Linux Kernel 4.5 or higher (LDP can be built, but may have limited use without MPLS) For an updated Ubuntu Kernel, see http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

Install required packages¶

Add packages:

apt-get install \
   git autoconf automake libtool make gawk libreadline-dev texinfo \
   dejagnu pkg-config libpam0g-dev libjson-c-dev bison flex python-pytest \
   libc-ares-dev python3-dev python3-sphinx install-info build-essential

FRR depends on the relatively new libyang library to provide YANG/NETCONF support. Unfortunately, most distributions do not yet offer a libyang package from their repositories. Therefore we offer two options to install this library.

Option 1: Binary Install

The FRR project builds binary libyang packages, which we offer for download here.

Warning

libyang version 0.16.74 or newer is required to build FRR.

Note

The libyang development packages need to be installed in addition to the libyang core package in order to build FRR successfully. Make sure to download and install those from the link above alongside the binary packages.

Depending on your platform, you may also need to install the PCRE development package. Typically this is libpcre-dev or pcre-devel.

Note

For Debian-based systems, the official libyang package requires recent versions of swig (3.0.12) and debhelper (11) which are only available in Debian buster (10). However, libyang packages built on Debian buster can be installed on both Debian jessie (8) and Debian stretch (9), as well as various Ubuntu systems. The python3-yang package will not work, but the other packages (libyang-dev is the one needed for FRR) will.

Option 2: Source Install

Note

Ensure that the libyang build requirements are met before continuing. Usually this entails installing cmake and libpcre-dev or pcre-devel.

git clone https://github.com/CESNET/libyang.git
cd libyang
mkdir build; cd build
cmake -DENABLE_LYD_PRIV=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr ..
make
sudo make install

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

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 -r -g 92 frr
sudo groupadd -r -g 85 frrvty
sudo adduser --system --ingroup frr --home /var/run/frr/ \
   --gecos "FRR suite" --shell /sbin/nologin frr
sudo usermod -a -G frrvty 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 \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --enable-exampledir=/usr/share/doc/frr/examples/ \
    --localstatedir=/var/run/frr \
    --sbindir=/usr/lib/frr \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/frr \
    --enable-multipath=64 \
    --enable-user=frr \
    --enable-group=frr \
    --enable-vty-group=frrvty \
    --enable-configfile-mask=0640 \
    --enable-logfile-mask=0640 \
    --enable-fpm \
    --with-pkg-git-version \
    --with-pkg-extra-version=-MyOwnFRRVersion
make
make check
sudo make install

Create empty FRR configuration files¶

sudo install -m 755 -o frr -g frr -d /var/log/frr
sudo install -m 775 -o frr -g frrvty -d /etc/frr
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr /dev/null /etc/frr/zebra.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr /dev/null /etc/frr/bgpd.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr /dev/null /etc/frr/ospfd.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr /dev/null /etc/frr/ospf6d.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr /dev/null /etc/frr/isisd.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr /dev/null /etc/frr/ripd.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr /dev/null /etc/frr/ripngd.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr /dev/null /etc/frr/pimd.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr /dev/null /etc/frr/ldpd.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr /dev/null /etc/frr/nhrpd.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frrvty /dev/null /etc/frr/vtysh.conf

Enable IP & IPv6 forwarding¶

Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and uncomment the following values (ignore the other settings)

# Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

# Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv6
#  Enabling this option disables Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
#  based on Router Advertisements for this host
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1

Reboot or use sysctl -p to apply the same config to the running system

Install the init.d service¶

sudo install -m 755 tools/frr /etc/init.d/frr
sudo install -m 644 tools/etc/frr/daemons /etc/frr/daemons
sudo install -m 644 -o frr -g frr tools/etc/frr/vtysh.conf /etc/frr/vtysh.conf

Enable daemons¶

Edit /etc/frr/daemons and change the value from “no” to “yes” for those daemons you want to start by systemd.

For example.

zebra=yes
bgpd=yes
ospfd=yes
ospf6d=yes
ripd=yes
ripngd=yes
isisd=yes

Start the init.d service¶

/etc/init.d/frr start
use /etc/init.d/frr status to check its status.