BGPD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual BGPD(8)NAMEbgpd - BGP4+ and RIPng routing protocol daemon
SYNOPSISbgpd [-c configfile] [-C] [-f]
DESCRIPTIONbgpd speaks IPv6 routing protocols, and maintains the IPv6 network rout-
ing table. Though the name is bgpd, it supports both BGP4+ (RFC 2283)
and RIPng (RFC 2080) as IPv6 routing protocols.
Options supported by bgpd:
-c configfile
Specify alternate location, configfile, for configuration file.
By default, /usr/local/v6/etc/bgpd.conf is used.
-C Just check the configuration and immediately exit. When bgpd is
invoked with this option, super user privilege is not required.
-f Do not become daemon, run in foreground.
The bgpd program dumps its current routing information to a dump file
when it receives a SIGUSR1 signal. The information includes per-inter-
face RIPng routes and per-peer base BGP information. By default, the
dump file is /var/run/bgpd.dump, which is configurable in the configura-
tion file. If the dump file does not exist, bgpd will create a new one
and dump to it.
ERROR MESSAGES
The bgpd daemon logs error messages using syslog(3).
FILES
/usr/local/v6/etc/bgpd.conf
default configuration file.
/var/run/bgpd.pid the pid of the currently running bgpd.
/var/run/bgpd.dump default dump file.
SEE ALSObgpd.conf(5)HISTORY
The bgpd command was first appeared in Toshiba IPv6 protocol stack kit.
BUGS
No authentication is supported. Therfore, OPEN message's optional param-
eter always consists of nothing.
Currently, the bgpd daemon doesn't watch the routing socket. So after
invoking, bgpd can't handle new routes which are manually added or are
added by some other routing daemons/commands.
There is code to handle OSPFv6 in the bgpd source directory, but OSPFv6
support is just in progress. bgpd is not able to distribute nor get IPv6
routing information via OSPFv6.
KAME May 17, 1998 1
