Zebra Protocol

Zebra Protocol is a protocol which used between protocol daemon and zebra. Each protocol daemon send selected routes to zebra dameon. Then zebra manages which route is intalled into forwarding table.

Zebra Protocol is a TCP based protocol. Below is common header of Zebra Protocol.

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Length(2) Command(1)

Length is total packet length including this header length. So minimum length is three. Command is Zebra Protocol command.

     ZEBRA_INTERFACE_ADD                1
     ZEBRA_INTERFACE_DELETE             2
     ZEBRA_INTERFACE_ADDRESS_ADD        3
     ZEBRA_INTERFACE_ADDRESS_DELETE     4
     ZEBRA_INTERFACE_UP                 5
     ZEBRA_INTERFACE_DOWN               6
     ZEBRA_IPV4_ROUTE_ADD               7
     ZEBRA_IPV4_ROUTE_DELETE            8
     ZEBRA_IPV6_ROUTE_ADD               9
     ZEBRA_IPV6_ROUTE_DELETE           10
     ZEBRA_REDISTRIBUTE_ADD            11
     ZEBRA_REDISTRIBUTE_DELETE         12
     ZEBRA_REDISTRIBUTE_DEFAULT_ADD    13
     ZEBRA_REDISTRIBUTE_DEFAULT_DELETE 14
     ZEBRA_IPV4_NEXTHOP_LOOKUP         15
     ZEBRA_IPV6_NEXTHOP_LOOKUP         16

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This file documents the GNU Zebra software which manages common TCP/IP routing protocols.

This is Edition 0.1, last updated 5 July 2000 of `The GNU Zebra Manual', for Zebra Version 0.88.

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