| Quagga Routing Suite | |
| Latest Release Version: | 1.2.4[1] |
| Operating System: | Unix-like |
| Genre: | Routing |
| License: | GNU General Public License v2 |
| Discontinued: | yes |
| Replaces: | GNU Zebra |
| Replaced By: | FRRouting |
| Programming Language: | C |
Quagga is a network routing software suite providing implementations of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and IS-IS for Unix-like platforms, particularly Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD.[2] [3]
Quagga is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL2).
In April 2017, FRRouting forked from Quagga aiming for a more open and faster development.[4]
The project takes its name from the quagga, an extinct sub-species of the African zebra. Quagga is a fork of the GNU Zebra project which was developed by Kunihiro Ishiguro and which was discontinued in 2005. The Quagga tree aims to build a more involved community for Quagga than the centralized development-model which GNU Zebra followed.
The Quagga architecture consists of a core daemon (zebra) which is an abstraction layer to the underlying Unix kernel and presents the Zserv API over a Unix-domain socket or TCP socket to Quagga clients. The Zserv clients typically implement a routing protocol and communicate routing updates to the zebra daemon. Existing Zserv clients are:
Additionally, the Quagga architecture has a rich development library to facilitate the implementation of protocol and client software with consistent configuration and administrative behavior.