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This document describes installation from source.

These instructions have been tested on openSUSE Tumbleweed in a Raspberry Pi 400.

Installing Dependencies

zypper in  git autoconf automake libtool make   \
  readline-devel texinfo net-snmp-devel groff pkgconfig libjson-c-devel\
  pam-devel python3-pytest bison flex c-ares-devel python3-devel\
  python3-Sphinx perl patch libcap-devel libyang-devel \
  libelf-devel libunwind-devel protobuf-c

Note

The libunwind library is optional but highly recommended, as it improves backtraces printed for crashes and debugging. However, if it is not available for some reason, it can simply be left out without any loss of functionality.

Building & Installing FRR

Add FRR user and groups

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

Compile

Clone the FRR git repo and use the included configure script to configure FRR’s build time options to your liking. The full option listing can be obtained by running ./configure -h. The options shown below are examples.

git clone https://github.com/frrouting/frr.git frr
cd frr
./bootstrap.sh
./configure \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --includedir=\${prefix}/include \
    --bindir=\${prefix}/bin \
    --sbindir=\${prefix}/lib/frr \
    --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/frr \
    --libexecdir=\${prefix}/lib/frr \
    --localstatedir=/var/run/frr \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/frr \
    --with-moduledir=\${prefix}/lib/frr/modules \
    --enable-configfile-mask=0640 \
    --enable-logfile-mask=0640 \
    --enable-snmp=agentx \
    --enable-multipath=64 \
    --enable-user=frr \
    --enable-group=frr \
    --enable-vty-group=frrvty \
    --with-pkg-git-version \
    --with-pkg-extra-version=-MyOwnFRRVersion
make
sudo make install

Install FRR configuration files

sudo install -m 775 -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 frrvty tools/etc/frr/vtysh.conf /etc/frr/vtysh.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr tools/etc/frr/frr.conf /etc/frr/frr.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr tools/etc/frr/daemons.conf /etc/frr/daemons.conf
sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr tools/etc/frr/daemons /etc/frr/daemons

Note

In some platforms like raspberry for performance reasons some directories are in file systems (/var/run, …) mounted with tempfs so will disapear after every reboot. In frr the /var/run/frr is used to store pid files for every daemon.

Tweak sysctls

Some sysctls need to be changed in order to enable IPv4/IPv6 forwarding and MPLS (if supported by your platform). If your platform does not support MPLS, skip the MPLS related configuration in this section.

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

#
# Enable packet forwarding
#
net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
#
# Enable MPLS Label processing on all interfaces
#
#net.mpls.conf.eth0.input=1
#net.mpls.conf.eth1.input=1
#net.mpls.conf.eth2.input=1
#net.mpls.platform_labels=100000

Note

MPLS must be invidividually enabled on each interface that requires it. See the example in the config block above.

Load the modified sysctls on the system:

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

Create a new file /etc/modules-load.d/mpls.conf with the following content:

# Load MPLS Kernel Modules
mpls-router
mpls-iptunnel

And load the kernel modules on the running system:

sudo modprobe mpls-router mpls-iptunnel

Note

The firewalld service could be enabled. You may run into some issues with the iptables rules it installs by default. If you wish to just stop the service and clear ALL rules do these commands:

sudo systemctl disable firewalld.service
sudo systemctl stop firewalld.service
sudo iptables -F

Install frr Service

sudo install -p -m 644 tools/frr.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/frr.service
sudo systemctl enable frr

Enable daemons

Open /etc/frr/daemons with your text editor of choice. Look for the section with bgpd=no etc. Enable the daemons as required by changing the value to yes.

Start FRR

sudo systemctl start frr

Check the starting messages of frr with

journalctl -u frr --follow