From f5b4c8b4d266655a008e62287885544f2f12eabc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Marek=20K=C3=BCthe?= Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 23:46:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add section how to start babeld MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Marek Küthe --- docs/routing/babeld/babeld.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/routing/babeld/babeld.md b/docs/routing/babeld/babeld.md index b1a1327..11ac70e 100644 --- a/docs/routing/babeld/babeld.md +++ b/docs/routing/babeld/babeld.md @@ -121,6 +121,19 @@ You can delete it with the following command: ip route del ``` +## Start babeld + +If you use a system with Systemd, you can use it to start: +``` +sudo systemctl start babeld +``` + +Alternatively, you can start babel with the following command: +``` +babeld -c +``` +`` will be replaced with the path to the configuration file. + ## Kernel parameters Once babeld is started, forwarding is enabled in the kernel for IPv4 and IPv6. As soon as babeld is stopped, forwarding is deactivated again. A separate enabling like with bird is not necessary. So if you use babeld, you can ignore the steps of [IPv6 forwarding](../forwarding).