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Building FRR on CentOS 6 from Git Source
========================================

Instructions are tested with `CentOS 6.8` on `x86_64` platform

CentOS 6 restrictions:
----------------------

- PIMd is not supported on `CentOS 6`. Upgrade to `CentOS 7` if PIMd is 
  needed
- MPLS is not supported on `CentOS 6`. MPLS requires Linux Kernel 4.5 or 
  higher (LDP can be built, but may have limited use without MPLS)

Install required packages
-------------------------

Add packages:

    sudo yum install git autoconf automake libtool make gawk readline-devel \
      texinfo net-snmp-devel groff pkgconfig json-c-devel pam-devel \
      flex pytest

Install newer version of bison (CentOS 6 package source is too old) from 
CentOS 7

    curl -O http://vault.centos.org/7.0.1406/os/Source/SPackages/bison-2.7-4.el7.src.rpm
    rpmbuild --rebuild ./bison-2.7-4.el7.src.rpm
    sudo yum install ./rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/bison-2.7-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
    rm -rf rpmbuild

Install newer version of autoconf and automake (Package versions are too old)

    curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
    tar xvf autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
    cd autoconf-2.69
    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    make
    sudo make install
    cd ..
    
    curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.15.tar.gz
    tar xvf automake-1.15.tar.gz
    cd automake-1.15
    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    make
    sudo make install
    cd ..

Install `Python 2.7` in parallel to default 2.6 (needed for `make check` to 
run unittests). 
Pick correct EPEL based on CentOS version used. Then install current `pytest`

    rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
    rpm -ivh https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
    yum install python27 python27-pip
    pip2.7 install pytest

Please note that `CentOS 6` needs to keep python pointing to version 2.6 
for `yum` to keep working, so don't create a symlink for python2.7 to python
    
Get FRR, compile it and install it (from Git)
---------------------------------------------

**This assumes you want to build and install FRR from source and not using 
any packages**

### Add frr groups and user

    sudo groupadd -g 92 frr
    sudo groupadd -r -g 85 frrvt
    sudo useradd -u 92 -g 92 -M -r -G frrvt -s /sbin/nologin \
      -c "FRR FreeRangeRouting suite" -d /var/run/frr frr

### Download Source, configure and compile it
(You may prefer different options on configure statement. These are just 
an example.)

You may want to pay special attention to `/usr/lib64` paths and change 
them if you are not building on a x86_64 architecture

    git clone https://github.com/freerangerouting/frr.git frr
    cd frr
    git checkout stable/2.0
    ./bootstrap.sh
    ./configure \
        --sysconfdir=/etc/frr \
        --libdir=/usr/lib64/frr \
        --libexecdir=/usr/lib64/frr \
        --localstatedir=/var/run/frr \
        --disable-pimd \
        --enable-snmp=agentx \
        --enable-multipath=64 \
        --enable-ospfclient=yes \
        --enable-ospfapi=yes \
        --enable-user=frr \
        --enable-group=frr \
        --enable-vty-group=frrvt \
        --enable-rtadv \
        --disable-exampledir \
        --enable-watchfrr \
        --enable-tcp-zebra \
        --enable-fpm \
        --with-pkg-git-version \
        --with-pkg-extra-version=-MyOwnFRRVersion   
    make
    make check PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.7
    sudo make install

### Create empty FRR configuration files
    sudo mkdir /var/log/frr
    sudo mkdir /etc/frr
    sudo touch /etc/frr/zebra.conf
    sudo touch /etc/frr/bgpd.conf
    sudo touch /etc/frr/ospfd.conf
    sudo touch /etc/frr/ospf6d.conf
    sudo touch /etc/frr/isisd.conf
    sudo touch /etc/frr/ripd.conf
    sudo touch /etc/frr/ripngd.conf
    sudo chown -R frr:frr /etc/frr/
    sudo touch /etc/frr/vtysh.conf
    sudo chown frr:frrvt /etc/frr/vtysh.conf
    sudo chmod 640 /etc/frr/*.conf

### Enable IP & IPv6 forwarding

Edit `/etc/sysctl.conf` and set the following values (ignore the other 
settings)

    # Controls IP packet forwarding
    net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
    net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1

    # Controls source route verification
    net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 0

**Reboot** or use `sysctl` to apply the same config to the running system

### Add init.d startup files
    sudo cp redhat/bgpd.init /etc/init.d/bgpd
    sudo cp redhat/isisd.init /etc/init.d/isisd
    sudo cp redhat/ospfd.init /etc/init.d/ospfd
    sudo cp redhat/ospf6d.init /etc/init.d/ospf6d
    sudo cp redhat/ripngd.init /etc/init.d/ripngd
    sudo cp redhat/ripd.init /etc/init.d/ripd
    sudo cp redhat/zebra.init /etc/init.d/zebra
    sudo chkconfig --add zebra 
    sudo chkconfig --add ripd
    sudo chkconfig --add ripngd
    sudo chkconfig --add ospf6d
    sudo chkconfig --add ospfd
    sudo chkconfig --add bgpd
    sudo chkconfig --add isisd

### Enable required daemons at startup
Only enable zebra and the daemons which are needed for your setup

    sudo chkconfig zebra on
    sudo chkconfig ospfd on
    sudo chkconfig bgpd on
    [...] etc (as needed)