diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/developer/building-frr-for-centos6.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/developer/building-frr-for-centos6.rst | 269 |
1 files changed, 269 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/developer/building-frr-for-centos6.rst b/doc/developer/building-frr-for-centos6.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d4c2c3bfd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/developer/building-frr-for-centos6.rst @@ -0,0 +1,269 @@ +CentOS 6 +======================================== + +(As an alternative to this installation, you may prefer to create a FRR +rpm package yourself and install that package instead. See instructions +in redhat/README.rpm\_build.md on how to build a rpm package) + +Instructions are tested with ``CentOS 6.8`` on ``x86_64`` platform + +Warning: +-------- +``CentOS 6`` is very old and not fully supported by the FRR community +anymore. Building FRR takes multiple manual steps to update the build +system with newer packages than what's available from the archives. +However, the built packages can still be installed afterwards on +a standard ``CentOS 6`` without any special packages. + +Support for CentOS 6 is now on a best-effort base by the community. + +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) +- Zebra is unable to detect what bridge/vrf an interface is associcated + with (IFLA\_INFO\_SLAVE\_KIND does not exist in the kernel headers, + you can use a newer kernel + headers to get this functionality) +- frr\_reload.py will not work, as this requires Python 2.7, and CentOS + 6 only has 2.6. You can install Python 2.7 via IUS, but it won't work + properly unless you compile and install the ipaddr package for it. +- Building the package requires Sphinx >= 1.1. Only a non-standard + package provides a newer sphinx and requires manual installation + (see below) + + +Install required packages +------------------------- + +Add packages: + +.. code-block:: shell + + sudo yum install git autoconf automake libtool make gawk \ + readline-devel texinfo net-snmp-devel groff pkgconfig \ + json-c-devel pam-devel flex epel-release perl-XML-LibXML \ + c-ares-devel + +Install newer version of bison (CentOS 6 package source is too old) from CentOS +7: + +.. code-block:: shell + + sudo yum install rpm-build + 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): + +.. code-block:: shell + + 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. Make sure you've install +EPEL (``epel-release`` as above). Then install current ``python27``: +``python27-devel`` and ``pytest`` + +.. code-block:: shell + + sudo rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm + sudo rpm -ivh https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm + sudo yum install python27 python27-pip python27-devel + sudo 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. + +Install newer ``Sphinx-Build`` based on ``Python 2.7``. + +Create a new repo ``/etc/yum.repos.d/puias6.repo`` with the following contents: + +:: + + ### Name: RPM Repository for RHEL 6 - PUIAS (used for Sphinx-Build) + ### URL: http://springdale.math.ias.edu/data/puias/computational + [puias-computational] + name = RPM Repository for RHEL 6 - Sphinx-Build + baseurl = http://springdale.math.ias.edu/data/puias/computational/$releasever/$basearch + #mirrorlist = + enabled = 1 + protect = 0 + gpgkey = + gpgcheck = 0 + +Update rpm database & Install newer sphinx + +.. code-block:: shell + + sudo yum update + sudo yum install python27-sphinx + +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 +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +.. code-block:: shell + + 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 FRRouting 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.) + +.. code-block:: shell + + git clone https://github.com/frrouting/frr.git frr + cd frr + ./bootstrap.sh + ./configure \ + --bindir=/usr/bin \ + --sbindir=/usr/lib/frr \ + --sysconfdir=/etc/frr \ + --libdir=/usr/lib/frr \ + --libexecdir=/usr/lib/frr \ + --localstatedir=/var/run/frr \ + --with-moduledir=/usr/lib/frr/modules \ + --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 \ + --disable-ldpd \ + --enable-fpm \ + --enable-nhrpd \ + --enable-eigrpd \ + --enable-babeld \ + --with-pkg-git-version \ + --with-pkg-extra-version=-MyOwnFRRVersion + make SPHINXBUILD=sphinx-build2.7 + make check PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.7 SPHINXBUILD=sphinx-build2.7 + sudo make SPHINXBUILD=sphinx-build2.7 install + +Create empty FRR configuration files +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +.. code-block:: shell + + sudo mkdir /var/log/frr + sudo mkdir /etc/frr + +For integrated config file: + +.. code-block:: shell + + sudo touch /etc/frr/frr.conf + +For individual config files: + +.. note:: Integrated config is preferred to individual config. + +.. code-block:: shell + + sudo touch /etc/frr/babeld.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/bfdd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/bgpd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/eigrpd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/isisd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/ldpd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/nhrpd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/ospf6d.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/ospfd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/pbrd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/pimd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/ripd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/ripngd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/staticd.conf + sudo touch /etc/frr/zebra.conf + sudo chown -R frr:frr /etc/frr/ + sudo touch /etc/frr/vtysh.conf + sudo chown frr:frrvty /etc/frr/vtysh.conf + sudo chmod 640 /etc/frr/*.conf + +Install daemon config file +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +.. code-block:: shell + + sudo install -p -m 644 redhat/daemons /etc/frr/ + sudo chown frr:frr /etc/frr/daemons + +Edit /etc/frr/daemons as needed to select the required daemons +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Look for the section with ``watchfrr_enable=...`` and ``zebra=...`` etc. +Enable the daemons as required by changing the value to ``yes`` + +Enable IP & IPv6 forwarding +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Edit :file:`/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 + +Load the modifed sysctl's on the system: + +.. code-block:: shell + + sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/90-routing-sysctl.conf + +Add init.d startup files +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +.. code-block:: + + sudo install -p -m 755 redhat/frr.init /etc/init.d/frr + sudo chkconfig --add frr + +Enable FRR daemon at startup +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +.. code-block:: + + sudo chkconfig frr on + +Start FRR manually (or reboot) +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +.. code-block:: + + sudo /etc/init.d/frr start |