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babeld — Routing daemon for Babel which uses firewall-style filters. More information: <https://www.irif.fr/~

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Problem

How to use the babeld command: Routing daemon for Babel which uses firewall-style filters. More information: <https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/babel/babeld.html>.

Solution

babeld — Routing daemon for Babel which uses firewall-style filters. More information: <https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/babel/babeld.html>.

Start the daemon with one or more [c]onfiguration files (read in order):

babeld -c {{path/to/ports.conf}} -c {{path/to/filters.conf}} -c {{path/to/interfaces.conf}}

[D]eamonize after startup:

babeld -D

Specify a [C]onfiguration command:

babeld -C '{{redistribute metric 256}}'

Specify on which interfaces to operate:

babeld {{eth0}} {{eth1}} {{wlan0}}

Code Snippets

Start the daemon with one or more [c]onfiguration files (read in order)

babeld -c {{path/to/ports.conf}} -c {{path/to/filters.conf}} -c {{path/to/interfaces.conf}}

[D]eamonize after startup

babeld -D

Specify a [C]onfiguration command

babeld -C '{{redistribute metric 256}}'

Specify on which interfaces to operate

babeld {{eth0}} {{eth1}} {{wlan0}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/babeld

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