[Netkit.users] Troubles wih Quagga/RIP

[Vsevolod Krishchenko]

Thank you, Massimo.

Anyway, students used to just kill it :)

Is there a public bugtracker to avoid wasting your time asking old question?

On Wednesday 22 October 2008 11:51:54 Massimo Rimondini wrote:

> Dear Vsevolod,
>
> we are aware of this bug. The reason why it is still there is that we
> are working on a new release that also involves the core and the kernel,
> and this consumes most of the (limited) development time.
>
> A fix to this will be available in the next version of the filesystem
> image. In the meantime, you can work this around by proceeding as follows.
> - Start a virtual machine that permanently writes on the filesystem image:
> vstart vm -W -m 64
> - Inside the virtual machine, edit the file /etc/init.d/quagga (or
> zebra, they are just the same file) and change line 24 ('echo
> "/var/run/quagga/$1.pid"') into 'echo "/var/$1.pid"'.
> - Gracefully shut down the virtual machine by typing 'halt' inside it.
>
> This should solve your problem.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience and please feel free to come back if you
> experience further issues.
>
> Regards,
> Massimo.
>
> Vsevolod Krishchenko wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I tried Netkit (and UML) for the first time today. They are great, but
> > I got some problems with quagga.
> >
> > 1. How to stop it? '/etc/init.d/zebra stop' does not work:
> >
> > r1:~# ps -A | egrep '(ripd|zebra)'
> >   479 ?        00:00:00 zebra
> >   483 ?        00:00:00 ripd
> > r1:~# /etc/init.d/zebra stop
> > Stopping Quagga daemons (prio:0): (ripd) (zebra) (bgpd) (ripngd)
> > (ospfd) (ospf6d) (isisd) (ldpd).
> > Removing all routes made by zebra.
> > r1:~# ps -A | egrep '(ripd|zebra)'
> >   479 ?        00:00:00 zebra
> >   483 ?        00:00:00 ripd
> >
> > /etc/init.d/quagga does the same (zebra is just a symlink)
> >
> > 2. After ifdown and ifup quagga still thinks that interface is down:
> >
> > r1:~# ifdown eth2
> > r1:~# tail -1 /var/log/quagga/ripd.log
> > 2008/10/17 22:27:34 RIP: interface delete eth2 index 5
> > r1:~# ifup eth2 && sleep 30
> > r1:~# tail -2 /var/log/quagga/ripd.log
> > 2008/10/17 22:27:34 RIP: interface delete eth2 index 5
> > 2008/10/17 22:27:56 RIP: rip_read: cannot find interface for packet
> > from 192.168.20.2 port 520
> >
> > So, quagga should be restarted after interface is up. But zebra
> > restarting is a bit tricky because '/etc/init.d/zebra restart' does
> > not work (of course we can just kill, but I don't wanna do it)
> >
> > 3. Is there a betterway to model network problem? Disabling interface
> > via vconfig/uml_mconsole does not work because interface is up :(
> > ifdown works fine, but ifup does not affect quagga at all  :(
> >
> > 4. Maybe something is wrong with my host? It's amd64 debian sid, but
> > my little problems does not look like host-related. I can try i386
> > system tomorrow, anyway.
>
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