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BIRD Internet Routing Daemon BIRD Internet Routing Daemon
Mailing list bird-users@network.cz
http://bird.network.cz/mailman/listinfo/bird-users
Home page http://bird.network.cz/ Home page http://bird.network.cz/
Mailing list bird-users@network.cz
(c) 1998--2008 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> (c) 1998--2008 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
(c) 1998--2000 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> (c) 1998--2000 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
(c) 1998--2008 Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz> (c) 1998--2008 Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz>
(c) 2009--2013 CZ.NIC z.s.p.o. (c) 2009--2016 CZ.NIC z.s.p.o.
================================================================================ ================================================================================
The BIRD project is an attempt to create a routing daemon running on UNIX-like The BIRD project aims to develop a dynamic IP routing daemon with full support
systems (but not necessarily limited to them) with full support of all modern of all modern routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and
routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and powerful route powerful route filtering language, primarily targeted on (but not limited to)
filtering language. Linux and other UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General
Public License.
What do we support
==================
o Both IPv4 and IPv6 (use --enable-ipv6 when configuring)
o Multiple routing tables
o Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv4)
o Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2)
o Open Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2, OSPFv3)
o Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
o IPv6 router advertisements
o Static routes
o Inter-table protocol
o Command-line interface allowing on-line control and inspection of
status of the daemon
o Soft reconfiguration, no need to use complex online commands to
change the configuration, just edit the configuration file and notify
BIRD to re-read it and it will smoothly switch itself to the new
configuration, not disturbing routing protocols unless they are
affected by the configuration changes
o Powerful language for route filtering, see doc/bird.conf.example
o Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD ports
How to install BIRD
===================
o From standard distribution package of your OS (recommended)
o From source code of the latest stable release version
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
o From source code of the actual development version
https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird
How to compile BIRD from source code
------------------------------------
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf
$ bird
Documentation
=============
Online documentation is available at http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc or as HTML
files in the doc directory, you can install it by `make install-docs' and
rebuild it by `make docs', but you'll need SGMLtools and LaTeX to be installed
on your machine. You can also download a neatly formatted PostScript version as
a separate archive (bird-doc-*.tar.gz) from ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
User support
============
If you want to help us debugging, enhancing and porting BIRD or just lurk If you want to help us debugging, enhancing and porting BIRD or just lurk
around to see what's going to develop from this strange creature, feel free to around to see what's going to develop, feel free to subscribe to the BIRD users
subscribe to the BIRD users mailing list (bird-users@bird.network.cz), send mailing list bird-users@bird.network.cz, just send `subscribe bird-users' to
subscribes to majordomo at the same machine). Bug reports, suggestions, feature majordomo@network.cz. Bug reports, suggestions, feature requests and code are
requests (: and code :) are welcome. We don't use gitlab issues reporting, sorry. welcome! We don't use gitlab issues for reporting, sorry.
You can download the latest version from ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/ Licence
and look at the BIRD home page at http://bird.network.cz/. =======
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
History
=======
BIRD development started as a student project at the Faculty of Math BIRD development started as a student project at the Faculty of Math
and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision
of RNDr. Libor Forst <forst@cuni.cz>. BIRD has been developed and supported of RNDr. Libor Forst <forst@cuni.cz>. BIRD has been developed and supported
by CZ.NIC z.s.p.o. http://www.nic.cz/ since 2009. by CZ.NIC z.s.p.o. http://www.nic.cz/ since 2009.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
How to install BIRD:
./configure
make
make install
vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf
Online documentation is available as HTML files in the doc directory,
you can install it by `make install-docs' and rebuild it by `make docs',
but for the latter you need SGMLtools and LaTeX to be installed on your
machine. You can also download a neatly formatted PostScript version
as a separate archive (bird-doc-*.tar.gz).
What do we support:
o Both IPv4 and IPv6 (use --enable-ipv6 when configuring)
o Multiple routing tables
o BGP
o RIP
o OSPF
o Static routes
o Inter-table protocol
o IPv6 router advertisements
o Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
o Command-line interface (using the `birdc' client; to get
some help, just press `?')
o Soft reconfiguration -- no online commands for changing the
configuration in very limited ways, just edit the configuration
file and issue a `configure' command or send SIGHUP and BIRD
will start using the new configuration, possibly restarting
protocols affected by the configuration changes.
o Powerful language for route filtering (see doc/bird.conf.example).
What is missing:
o See the TODO list
Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :) Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :)
The BIRD Team The BIRD Team