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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.
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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.
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Ishiguro and Yoshikawa led the IP Infusion company and market a commercial version of Zebra, known as "ZebOS". This ZebOS is being used in networking products, such as FortiOS and the Citrix NetScaler.
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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 "
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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:
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The idea for Zebra originally came from Kunihiro Ishiguro, after he realized the need for quality routing software. While working at an
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Citrix, "The NetScaler routing suite is based on ZebOS, the commercial version of GNU Zebra.",
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This article is about the discontinued routing software. For its successor, see
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The official website announced that "Zebra has been decommissioned".
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Article in "Linux Magazine", April 2004: "GNU Zebra"
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Quagga (software)
Final release
Quagga
Type
License
GNU General Public License
www.gnu.org/software/zebra/
routing
TCP/IP
routing protocols
RIP
OSPF
BGP
Route Server
IPv4
IPv6
GNU General Public License
ISP
joint venture
British Telecom
Marubeni
venture capitalist
Quagga
Free and open-source software portal
List of open source routing platforms
http://www.ipinfusion.com/about
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/ns-system-10-map/ns-nw-iprouting-config-dyna-rout-con.html
Official website
Article in "Linux Magazine", April 2004: "GNU Zebra"
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