| | 1 | BIRD Internet Routing Daemon |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | (c) 1998--2008 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> |
| | 4 | (c) 1998--2000 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> |
| | 5 | (c) 1998--2008 Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz> |
| | 6 | (c) 2009--2013 CZ.NIC z.s.p.o. |
| | 7 | |
| | 8 | ================================================================================ |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | The BIRD project is an attempt to create a routing daemon running on UNIX-like |
| | 11 | systems (but not necessarily limited to them) with full support of all modern |
| | 12 | routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and powerful route |
| | 13 | filtering language. |
| | 14 | |
| | 15 | If you want to help us debugging, enhancing and porting BIRD or just lurk |
| | 16 | around to see what's going to develop from this strange creature, feel free |
| | 17 | to subscribe to the BIRD users mailing list (bird-users@bird.network.cz), |
| | 18 | send subscribes to majordomo at the same machine). Bug reports, suggestions, |
| | 19 | feature requests (: and code :) are welcome. |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | You can download the latest version from ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/ |
| | 22 | and look at the BIRD home page at http://bird.network.cz/. |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | BIRD development started as a student project at the Faculty of Math |
| | 25 | and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision |
| | 26 | of RNDr. Libor Forst <forst@cuni.cz>. BIRD has been developed and supported |
| | 27 | by CZ.NIC z.s.p.o. http://www.nic.cz/ since 2009. |
| | 28 | |
| | 29 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| | 30 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
| | 31 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
| | 32 | (at your option) any later version. |
| | 33 | |
| | 34 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| | 35 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| | 36 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
| | 37 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
| | 40 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
| | 41 | Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA |
| | 42 | |
| | 43 | |
| | 44 | How to install BIRD: |
| | 45 | |
| | 46 | ./configure |
| | 47 | make |
| | 48 | make install |
| | 49 | vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf |
| | 50 | |
| | 51 | Online documentation is available as HTML files in the doc directory, |
| | 52 | you can install it by `make install-docs' and rebuild it by `make docs', |
| | 53 | but for the latter you need SGMLtools and LaTeX to be installed on your |
| | 54 | machine. You can also download a neatly formatted PostScript version |
| | 55 | as a separate archive (bird-doc-*.tar.gz). |
| | 56 | |
| | 57 | What do we support: |
| | 58 | |
| | 59 | o Both IPv4 and IPv6 (use --enable-ipv6 when configuring) |
| | 60 | o Multiple routing tables |
| | 61 | o BGP |
| | 62 | o RIP |
| | 63 | o OSPF |
| | 64 | o Static routes |
| | 65 | o Inter-table protocol |
| | 66 | o IPv6 router advertisements |
| | 67 | o Command-line interface (using the `birdc' client; to get |
| | 68 | some help, just press `?') |
| | 69 | o Soft reconfiguration -- no online commands for changing the |
| | 70 | configuration in very limited ways, just edit the configuration |
| | 71 | file and issue a `configure' command or send SIGHUP and BIRD |
| | 72 | will start using the new configuration, possibly restarting |
| | 73 | protocols affected by the configuration changes. |
| | 74 | o Powerful language for route filtering (see doc/bird.conf.example). |
| | 75 | |
| | 76 | What is missing: |
| | 77 | |
| | 78 | o See the TODO list |
| | 79 | |
| | 80 | Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :) |
| | 81 | The BIRD Team |
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