Tutorial¶

Basic Usage¶

We can use yabgpd help.

$ yabgpd -h

The simple way to start a yabgp agent is (There are four mandatory parameters):

$ yabgpd --bgp-local_addr=10.75.44.11 --bgp-local_as=23650 \
         --bgp-remote_addr=10.124.1.245 --bgp-remote_as=23650

The default address family will be IPv4 unicast. If you need support other address family, you can use something like:

` $ yabgpd --bgp-local_addr=10.75.44.122 --bgp-local_as=100 --bgp-remote_addr=10.75.195.199 --bgp-remote_as=100 --bgp-afi_safi=ipv4_srte,flowspec,ipv4,bgpls `

that session will suport: IPv4 Unicast, IPv4 Flowspec, IPv4 SR TE and BGP linkstate.

Configuration¶

The configuration sample can be found at https://github.com/smartbgp/yabgp/blob/master/etc/yabgp/yabgp.ini.sample

Advanced Usage¶

If you change the default setting (like change the write_dir), please start the yabgp use the configuration file:

$ cp etc/yabgp/yabgp.ini.sample etc/yabgp/yabgp.ini
$ yabgpd --bgp-local_addr=10.75.44.11 --bgp-local_as=23650 --bgp-remote_addr=10.124.1.245 \
         --bgp-remote_as=23650 --bgp-md5=cisco --config-file=../etc/yabgp/yabgp.ini

Logging and Debug¶

The default setting is loggint to console, if you want to write log files and no console output, please use:

$ yabgpd --bgp-local_addr=10.75.44.11 --bgp-local_as=23650 --bgp-remote_addr=10.124.1.245 \
         --bgp-remote_as=23650 --bgp-md5=cisco --nouse-stderr --log-file=test.log

If you want to change the log level to debug, use –verbose option.

$ yabgpd --bgp-local_addr=10.75.44.11 --bgp-local_as=23650 --bgp-remote_addr=10.124.1.245 \
         --bgp-remote_as=23650 --bgp-md5=cisco --verbose