Editing GNU Zebra

{{Short description|Network routing software suite}}
{{About|the discontinued routing software|its successor|Quagga (software)}}
{{Infobox software
 |name = GNU Zebra
 |logo =
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 |discontinued = yes
 |latest_release_version = 0.95a
 |latest_release_date    = {{release date|2005|9|8}}
 |operating_system =
 |genre = Routing
 |license = [[GNU General Public License]]
 |website = {{url|https://www.gnu.org/software/zebra/}}
 |replaced_by = [[Quagga (software)|Quagga]]
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'''Zebra''' is a discontinued [[routing]] software package that provides [[TCP/IP]] based routing services with [[routing protocols]] support such as [[Routing Information Protocol|RIP]], [[Open Shortest Path First|OSPF]] and [[Border Gateway Protocol|BGP]]. Zebra also supports BGP Route Reflector and [[Route server|Route Server]] behavior. In addition to [[IPv4]] routing protocols, Zebra also supports [[IPv6]] routing protocols.

Zebra provided a high quality, multi server routing engine. Zebra has an interactive user interface for each routing protocol and supports common client commands. Due to this design, new protocol daemons can be easily added. Zebra library can also be used as a program's client user interface.

Zebra is distributed under the [[GNU General Public License]].

==History==
The idea for Zebra originally came from Kunihiro Ishiguro, after he realized the need for quality routing software. While working at an [[Internet Service Provider|ISP]] [[joint venture]] between [[British Telecom]] and [[Marubeni]], Ishiguro encountered [[venture capitalist]] Yoshinari Yoshikawa.

Yoshinari Yoshikawa shared Ishiguro's vision for a new routing engine and they combined resources to create the world's first routing engine software. The resulting entity, known as the Zebra Project, was started in 1996.

Ishiguro and Yoshikawa led the IP Infusion company and market a commercial version of Zebra, known as "ZebOS".<ref>
IP Infusion,
"IP Infusion was founded in 1999 by Kunihiro Ishiguro and Yoshinari Yoshikawa [...] Mr. Ishiguro’s background as the co-founder and developer of open source Zebra [...]"
http://www.ipinfusion.com/about
</ref> This ZebOS is being used in networking products, such as FortiOS and the Citrix NetScaler.<ref>
Citrix,
"The NetScaler routing suite is based on ZebOS, the commercial version of GNU Zebra.",
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/ns-system-10-map/ns-nw-iprouting-config-dyna-rout-con.html
</ref>

The official website announced that "Zebra has been decommissioned".

Since its last release (version 0.95) in 2005-09-08, development of Zebra stopped. A new project emerged as the unofficial successor of Zebra: [[Quagga (software)|Quagga]].

==See also==
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
*[[List of open source routing platforms]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.gnu.org/software/zebra/ Official website]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070117020432/http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1625 Article in "Linux Magazine", April 2004: "GNU Zebra"]}}

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