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| 89e7de98 | 1 | BIRD Internet Routing Daemon 1.0.0 |
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| 3 | (c) 1998--2000 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> | |
| 4 | (c) 1998--2000 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> | |
| 5 | (c) 1998--2000 Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz> | |
| 6 | ||
| 7 | ================================================================================ | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | The BIRD project is an attempt to create a routing daemon running on UNIX-like | |
| 10 | systems (but not necessarily limited to them) with full support of all modern | |
| 11 | routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and powerful route | |
| 12 | filtering language. | |
| 13 | ||
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14 | If you want to help us debugging, enhancing and porting BIRD or just lurk |
| 15 | around to see what's going to develop from this strange creature, feel free | |
| 16 | to subscribe to the BIRD users mailing list (bird-users@bird.network.cz), | |
| 17 | send subscribes to majordomo at the same machine). Bug reports, suggestions, | |
| 18 | feature requests (: and code :) are welcome. | |
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20 | You can download the latest version from ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/ |
| 21 | and look at the BIRD home page at http://bird.network.cz/. | |
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23 | BIRD has been developed as a student project at the Faculty of Math |
| 24 | and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision | |
| 25 | of RNDr. Libor Forst <forst@cuni.cz>. | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
| 28 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| 29 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
| 30 | (at your option) any later version. | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 33 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 34 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
| 35 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 38 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software | |
| 39 | Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | ||
| 42 | How to install BIRD: | |
| 43 | ||
| 44 | ./configure | |
| 45 | make | |
| 46 | make install | |
| 47 | vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf | |
| 48 | ||
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49 | Online documentation is available as HTML files in the doc directory. |
| 50 | You can also download a neatly formatted PostScript version as a separate | |
| 51 | archive (bird-doc-*.tar.gz). | |
| 52 | ||
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53 | What do we support: |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | o Both IPv4 and IPv6 (use --enable-ipv6 when configuring) | |
| 56 | o Multiple routing tables | |
| 57 | o BGP | |
| 58 | o RIP | |
| 89e7de98 | 59 | o OSPF (IPv4 only) |
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60 | o Static routes |
| 61 | o Inter-table protocol | |
| 62 | o Command-line interface (using the `birdc' client; to get | |
| 63 | some help, just press `?') | |
| 64 | o Soft reconfiguration -- no online commands for changing the | |
| 65 | configuration in very limited ways, just edit the configuration | |
| 66 | file and issue a `configure' command or send SIGHUP and BIRD | |
| 67 | will start using the new configuration, possibly restarting | |
| 68 | protocols affected by the configuration changes. | |
| 69 | o Powerful language for route filtering (see doc/bird.conf.example). | |
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71 | Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :) |
| 72 | The BIRD Team |