Named after an extinct sub-species of the African zebra, Quagga is a fork of the GNU Zebra project routing software package,  which was discontinued in 2005, providing implementations of OSPF, RIP, BGP, and ISIS for *nix based systems.

Quagga can be used to turn your *nix system into a software based router, however it is more typically used as route server in an eBGP peering environment or as a route reflector in iBGP implementations that are not fully meshed. Continue reading How to install Quagga on Centos 6.5 →