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(c) 1998--2008 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
(c) 1998--2000 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
(c) 1998--2008 Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz>
(c) 2009--2019 CZ.NIC z.s.p.o.
(c) since 2009 CZ.NIC z.s.p.o.
================================================================================
The BIRD project aims to develop a dynamic IP routing daemon with full support
of all modern routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and
powerful route filtering language, primarily targeted on (but not limited to)
Linux and other UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General
Public License.
BIRD is a dynamic IP routing daemon with full support of many modern routing
protocols, easy to use configuration interface and
powerful route filtering language, supporting Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD.
BIRD is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
What do we support
==================
o Both IPv4 and IPv6
o Both IPv6 and IPv4
o Multiple routing tables
o Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv4)
o Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2, RIPng)
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o Babel Routing Protocol (Babel)
o Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
o IPv6 router advertisements
o MRT dumping and BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP)
o Route Origin Authorization (ROA) and RTR protocol (RPKI)
o MPLS and basic L3VPN route transformations
o Route aggregation
o Static routes
o Inter-table protocol
o Inter-table protocol (Pipe)
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
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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 Powerful language for route filtering, see filter/test.conf
for exhaustive demonstration
o Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD ports
How to install BIRD
===================
o From standard distribution package of your OS (recommended)
o From official binary packages for Debian and Red Hat Linux
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/debian/
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/redhat/
o From official binary packages for Debian and Ubuntu
https://pkg.labs.nic.cz/doc/?project=bird
and also CentOS
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/centos
or Fedora
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/fedora
o From source code of the latest stable release version
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
o From current development code in Git repository
https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/
o From current development code in our Git repository
https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/
(there are also autobuilds, look for the Downloads button
nearby the Clone button)
See the file INSTALL for information about installation from source code.
@ -74,6 +83,30 @@ code are welcome! We don't use gitlab issues for reporting, sorry.
Subscribe: http://bird.network.cz/mailman/listinfo/bird-users/
Archive: http://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/
For commercial support options, see https://bird.nic.cz/en/commercial-services/
Contributing
============
Simple patches can be sent directly to the users mailing list. With more
elaborate contributions, please create your own fork and send just a link
to your public repository, including the appropriate branch name(s)
and Git commit hash(es)
Please note that we are keeping mergability of the stable version 2 with
the multithreaded version 3. Every contribution must be mergable to both
branches master and thread-next. In case of collisions, the contributor
shall provide two branches / patches, one mergable to master, another
to thread-next.
Alternatively, the contributor may omit the version 2 implementation and
contribute to version 3 only. We are planning to declare the version 3
stable as soon as possible. Don't worry, your contribution won't be lost.
If you need any help of guidance, feel free to ask. The maintainers are
quite busy though (as of Jan 2024). You are expected to ping the maintainers
relentlessly until they react and review your contributions.
Licence
=======
@ -99,6 +132,8 @@ and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision
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.
At the end of the year 2023, support for versions 1.x has been discontinued.
If you are still running BIRD 1, please upgrade to BIRD 2.
Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :)
The BIRD Team