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diff --git a/doc/developer/building-frr-for-ubuntu2204.rst b/doc/developer/building-frr-for-ubuntu2204.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..97bdf88 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/developer/building-frr-for-ubuntu2204.rst @@ -0,0 +1,183 @@ +Ubuntu 22.04 LTS +================ + +This document describes installation from source. If you want to build a +``deb``, see :ref:`packaging-debian`. + +Installing Dependencies +----------------------- + +.. code-block:: console + + sudo apt update + sudo apt-get install \ + git autoconf automake libtool make libreadline-dev texinfo \ + pkg-config libpam0g-dev libjson-c-dev bison flex \ + libc-ares-dev python3-dev python3-sphinx \ + install-info build-essential libsnmp-dev perl \ + libcap-dev python2 libelf-dev libunwind-dev \ + libyang2 libyang2-dev + +.. include:: building-libunwind-note.rst + +Note that Ubuntu >= 20 no longer installs python 2.x, so it must be +installed explicitly. Ensure that your system has a symlink named +``/usr/bin/python`` pointing at ``/usr/bin/python3``. + +.. code-block:: shell + + sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python + python --version + +In addition, ``pip`` for python2 must be installed if you wish to run +the FRR topotests. That version of ``pip`` is not available from the +ubuntu apt repositories; in order to install it: + +.. code-block:: shell + + curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py + sudo python2 ./get-pip.py + + # And verify the installation + pip2 --version + + +Protobuf +^^^^^^^^ +This is optional + +.. code-block:: console + + sudo apt-get install protobuf-c-compiler libprotobuf-c-dev + + +Config Rollbacks +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +If config rollbacks are enabled using ``--enable-config-rollbacks`` +the sqlite3 developer package also should be installed. + +.. code-block:: console + + sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev + + +ZeroMQ +^^^^^^ +This is optional + +.. code-block:: console + + sudo apt-get install libzmq5 libzmq3-dev + +Building & Installing FRR +------------------------- + +Add FRR user and groups +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +.. code-block:: console + + sudo groupadd -r -g 92 frr + sudo groupadd -r -g 85 frrvty + sudo adduser --system --ingroup frr --home /var/run/frr/ \ + --gecos "FRR suite" --shell /sbin/nologin frr + sudo usermod -a -G frrvty frr + +Compile +^^^^^^^ + +.. include:: include-compile.rst + +Install FRR configuration files +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +.. code-block:: console + + sudo install -m 775 -o frr -g frr -d /var/log/frr + sudo install -m 775 -o frr -g frrvty -d /etc/frr + sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frrvty tools/etc/frr/vtysh.conf /etc/frr/vtysh.conf + sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr tools/etc/frr/frr.conf /etc/frr/frr.conf + sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr tools/etc/frr/daemons.conf /etc/frr/daemons.conf + sudo install -m 640 -o frr -g frr tools/etc/frr/daemons /etc/frr/daemons + +Tweak sysctls +^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Some sysctls need to be changed in order to enable IPv4/IPv6 forwarding and +MPLS (if supported by your platform). If your platform does not support MPLS, +skip the MPLS related configuration in this section. + +Edit :file:`/etc/sysctl.conf` and uncomment the following values (ignore the +other settings): + +:: + + # Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4 + net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 + + # Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv6 + # Enabling this option disables Stateless Address Autoconfiguration + # based on Router Advertisements for this host + net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1 + +Reboot or use ``sysctl -p`` to apply the same config to the running system. + +Add MPLS kernel modules +""""""""""""""""""""""" + +Ubuntu 20.04 ships with kernel 5.4; MPLS modules are present by default. To +enable, add the following lines to :file:`/etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf`: + +:: + + # Load MPLS Kernel Modules + mpls_router + mpls_iptunnel + + +And load the kernel modules on the running system: + +.. code-block:: console + + sudo modprobe mpls-router mpls-iptunnel + +If the above command returns an error, you may need to install the appropriate +or latest linux-modules-extra-<kernel-version>-generic package. For example +``apt-get install linux-modules-extra-`uname -r`-generic`` + +Enable MPLS Forwarding +"""""""""""""""""""""" + +Edit :file:`/etc/sysctl.conf` and the following lines. Make sure to add a line +equal to :file:`net.mpls.conf.eth0.input` for each interface used with MPLS. + +:: + + # Enable MPLS Label processing on all interfaces + net.mpls.conf.eth0.input=1 + net.mpls.conf.eth1.input=1 + net.mpls.conf.eth2.input=1 + net.mpls.platform_labels=100000 + +Install service files +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +.. code-block:: console + + sudo install -m 644 tools/frr.service /etc/systemd/system/frr.service + sudo systemctl enable frr + +Enable daemons +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Open :file:`/etc/frr/daemons` with your text editor of choice. Look for the +section with ``watchfrr_enable=...`` and ``zebra=...`` etc. Enable the daemons +as required by changing the value to ``yes``. + +Start FRR +^^^^^^^^^ + +.. code-block:: shell + + systemctl start frr |