Introduction
The RTRlib implements the client-side of the RPKI-RTR protocol (RFC 6810), (RFC 8210) and BGP Prefix Origin Validation (RFC 6811). This also enables the maintenance of router keys. Router keys are required to deploy BGPSEC.
The software was successfully tested on Linux and FreeBSD.
This package contains also the rtrclient program. It connects to an
RTR-Server over TCP or SSH and shows on STDOUT prefix origin data and
router keys that have been received from the RTR server. The program can
be found in the bin/ directory.
Requirements
To build the RTRlib, the CMake build system must be installed.
To establish an SSH connection between RTR-Client and RTR-Server, the libssh 0.6.x or higher library must also be installed.
To enable BGPsec support for validating and signing AS paths, libssl 1.0 or higher needs to be installed.
cmocka (optional) is required for unit tests Doxygen (optional) is required to create the HTML documentation.
Compilation
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Generate Makefile:
Without debugging options
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .With debug symbols and debug messages:
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug .If the libssh isn't installed within the systems include and library directories you can run cmake with the following parameters:
-D LIBSSH_LIBRARIES=<path-to-libssh.so> -D LIBSSH_INCLUDE_DIRS=<include-directory>If libssh is installed but you do not want to build rtrlib with ssh support, you can disable it with the following parameter:
-D RTRLIB_TRANSPORT_SSH=NoOr to enforce ssh support:
-D RTRLIB_TRANSPORT_SSH=YesTo specify another directory where the RTRlib will be installed, you can pass the following argument to cmake:
-D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path>BGPsec support is enabled by default. If dependencies cannot be resolved, rtrlib builds without BGPsec.
To explicitly disable BGPsec:
-D WITH_BGPSEC=NoTo explicitly enable BGPsec and fail the build if dependencies cannot be resolved:
-D WITH_BGPSEC=Yes -
Build library, tests, and tools
make
Installation
To copy libraries and headers to system directories, run (optional):
make install
Linking to RTRlib
The name of the shared library is rtr. To link programs to the RTRlib, pass the following parameter to gcc:
-lrtr
In case an error such as
-/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lrtr
-collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
occurs, the location of the library can be passed explicitly as a parameter
-L<path_to_librtr.so>
e.g.,
-L/usr/local/lib64/
API Documentation
The RTRlib includes a HTML documentation of the API. To build them, doxygen must be installed. The documentation will be located in the docs/ directory after the execution of:
make doc
Test RTR-Server Connection
The following command establishes a plain TCP connection to an RTR-Server using the rtrclient command line tool:
bin/rtrclient tcp rpki-validator.realmv6.org 8282
rpki-validator.realmv6.org is an open RTR-Server instance for testing
purposes, which runs the RIPE Validator. It listens on port 8282 and
validates ROAs from the following trust anchors: AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN,
LACNIC, RIPE.
Directories
- cmake/ - CMake modules
- doxygen/ - Example code and graphics used in the Doxygen documentation
- rtrlib/ - Header and source code files of the RTRlib
- tests/ - Unit tests
- tools/ - Contains the rtrclient
CONTRIBUTE
To contribute something to RTRlib, please refer to our contributing document.
Contact
Website: http://rtrlib.realmv6.org/
Mailing List: [email protected]