FRRouting

The FRRouting (FRR) package, available for pfSense since late 2017, supports BGP, OSPF, and OSPF6. It is intended as a replacement for both OpenBGPD and Quagga OSPF, and allows pfSense users to run both BGPD and OSPF simultaneously. It can be configured both from the web GUI and from the command line.

If you install FRR, pfSense will automatically uninstall OpenBGPD and Quagga OSPF, if either of these packages are already installed. Once FRR is installed, there will be four new options on the Services menu: FRR BGP, FRR Global/Zebra, FRR OSPF, and FRR OSPF6. The different menu options can also be accessed by clicking on the identically marked tabs on the pages for each option. For example, to access FRR Global/Zebra from FRR BGP, ...

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