Common Invocation Options

These options apply to all Zebra daemons.

-d

--daemon

Runs in daemon mode.

-f file

--config_file=file

Set configuration file name.

-h

--help

Display this help and exit.

-i file

--pid_file=file

Upon startup the process identifier of the daemon is written to a file, typically in /var/run. This file can be used by the init system to implement commands such as .../init.d/zebra status, .../init.d/zebra restart or .../init.d/zebra stop.

The file name is an run-time option rather than a configure-time option so that multiple routing daemons can be run simultaneously. This is useful when using Zebra to implement a routing looking glass. One machine can be used to collect differing routing views from differing points in the network.

-P port

--vty_port=port

Set the VTY port number.

-v

--version

Print program version.