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  ROUTER FOR LINUX - QUAGGA First some background... Quagga is an add on to the original Zebra router developed many moons ago. Quagga supports many dynamic routing protocols, and a number of vendors who make mods to the base. In general on some linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Centos7) it is supported by simply typing apt-get install quagga with a base directory configuration of /etc/quagga/ but if compiling from source it would default to /usr/local/etc/quagga.... if you dont add the switches below. QUAGGA IS COMPATIBLE AND INTEROPERATES WITH CISCO, ADTRAN, AND JUNIPER BGP STACKS WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT. IT MAKES EVERY HOST A ROUTER FOR FREE AND USUALLY INSIDE 100MB OF RAM...VERSUS CISCO CSR's WHICH REQUIRE 2GB OF MEMORY AND 4 CORES. BUT ONLY FOR BASIC SERVICES AND ROUTING PROTOCOLS, CISCO AND JUNIPER SUPPORT 10S OF THOUSANDS OF FEATURES WHICH QUAGGA DOESNT. BUT IF YOU NEED TO ROUTE A SINGLE PREFIX OR TWO ITS A VERY GOOD CHOICE. WE WOULD CALL IT A BIT BEYOND EXPERIMENTAL AND ...

  (Caution if you have never used Unix/Linux Command line tools... this set of instructions is a triple black diamond)...but if you have familiarity with Linux/Unix system administration you can get this working in less than 2 hours....  [BTW THE WINDOWS INSTALLATION IS MUCH EASIER... AS THE INSTALLER CREATES WIZARDS FOR THE LISTENER AND DBMS CONFIGURATION] STEP1 - LOGIN TO YOUR LINUX INSTANCE AS ROOT & MAKE SURE WGET IS INSTALLED     sudo dnf update     sudo dnf upgrade      sudo dnf install wget STEP2 - CHANGE INTO THE ROOT DOWNLOADS DIRECTORY     cd /root/Downloads STEP3 - DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL WEBMIN     wget "grab the latest link from webmin.com for RPM.... such as"     wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.984-1.noarch.rpm     dnf install ./webmin*.rpm (Or for the superstar rpm -ivh ./webmin*.rpm)     change into /etc/webmin/ and modify miniserv to appropriate port...