Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:43:39 +0100
From:      Marko Zec <zec@icir.org>
To:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems starting routing software at virtual nodes
Message-ID:  <200812221443.40546.zec@icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <cce1a6a0812220053p50c11deav8f50c545f04d459e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <cce1a6a0812220053p50c11deav8f50c545f04d459e@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Monday 22 December 2008 09:53:58 michael d=FCrr wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I updated my FreeBSD RELEASE 7.0 to RELENG_7_1 and installed the
> VIMAGE capable kernel and the vimage(8) tool from the provided
> sources at http://imunes.net/virtnet/vimage_7-20081015.tgz
>
> I also installed tk-8.4, quagga and xorp from the ports repos.
>
> In order to deploy more complex networking setups I wanted to switch
> from static routing ripv2.
>
> Now my question: Are there certain settings I have to perform in
> order to get ripd working? So far, I always tried to start the daemon
> by executing
>
> vimage v1 zebra -d
> vimage v1 ripd -d
>
> but both commands immediately return and nothing else happens (no
> errors, no daemon processes started). In case I call these commands
> at the host
>
> zebra -d
> rip -d
>
> everything works as expected.
>
> I'm sorry for this question, but is it necessary to install a special
> configured version of the quagga routing software to get things
> working?

Hi Michael,

my wild guess is that you are attempting to run multiple instances of=20
quagga (i.e. zebra, ripd etc.) and that they are clashing=20
on /var/run/quagga/ PF_UNIX named sockets.  My suggestion would be to=20
make a separate directory for each vimage in say /tmp, and then=20
make /var/run/quagga a variant symlink to those dirs.  You can do the=20
same for the Quagga.conf file for which the path is hardcoded in quagga=20
as well:

ln -s /tmp/$vimage_name/@ /var/run/quagga
ln -s /tmp/$vimage_name/@/boot.conf /usr/local/etc/quagga/Quagga.conf

The @ sign will be substituted with the current vimage name when=20
resolving the symlink.  And don't forget to issue "vtysh -b" after=20
starting your daemons if you are using the unified Quagga.conf file.

Hope this helps,

Marko



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200812221443.40546.zec>