Problems starting routing software at virtual nodes

[Marko Zec]

On Monday 22 December 2008 14:43:39 Marko Zec wrote:
> On Monday 22 December 2008 09:53:58 michael dürr 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
> quagga (i.e. zebra, ripd etc.) and that they are clashing
> on /var/run/quagga/ PF_UNIX named sockets.  My suggestion would be to
> make a separate directory for each vimage in say /tmp, and then
> make /var/run/quagga a variant symlink to those dirs.  You can do the
> same for the Quagga.conf file for which the path is hardcoded in
> quagga as well:
>
> ln -s /tmp/$vimage_name/@ /var/run/quagga
> ln -s /tmp/$vimage_name/@/boot.conf /usr/local/etc/quagga/Quagga.conf

Ooops... The above symlink hack wouldn't work, but the one bellow 
should:

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

Good luck,

Marko

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