README

   1                        BIRD Internet Routing Daemon 1.0.0
   2
   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
  14 This software should be considered a beta version. It has undergone extensive
  15 testing by the authors, but since it's the first public release, only a limited
  16 amount of "real life" experience is known and there still might be problems
  17 with operation in unusual environments.
  18
  19 If you want to help us debugging, enhancing and porting BIRD or just lurk
  20 around to see what's going to develop from this strange creature, feel free
  21 to subscribe to the BIRD users mailing list (bird-users@bird.network.cz),
  22 send subscribes to majordomo at the same machine).  Bug reports, suggestions,
  23 feature requests (: and code :) are welcome.
  24
  25 You can download the latest version from ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
  26 and look at the BIRD home page at http://bird.network.cz/.
  27
  28 BIRD has been developed as a student project at the Faculty of Math
  29 and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision
  30 of RNDr. Libor Forst <forst@cuni.cz>.
  31
  32     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  33     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  34     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  35     (at your option) any later version.
  36
  37     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  38     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  39     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  40     GNU General Public License for more details.
  41
  42     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  43     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  44     Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
  45
  46
  47 How to install BIRD:
  48
  49         ./configure
  50         make
  51         make install
  52         vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf
  53
  54 Online documentation is available as HTML files in the doc directory,
  55 you can install it by `make install-docs' and rebuild it by `make docs',
  56 but for the latter you need SGMLtools and LaTeX to be installed on your
  57 machine. You can also download a neatly formatted PostScript version
  58 as a separate archive (bird-doc-*.tar.gz).
  59
  60 What do we support:
  61
  62         o  Both IPv4 and IPv6 (use --enable-ipv6 when configuring)
  63         o  Multiple routing tables
  64         o  BGP
  65         o  RIP
  66         o  OSPF (IPv4 only)
  67         o  Static routes
  68         o  Inter-table protocol
  69         o  Command-line interface (using the `birdc' client; to get
  70            some help, just press `?')
  71         o  Soft reconfiguration -- no online commands for changing the
  72            configuration in very limited ways, just edit the configuration
  73            file and issue a `configure' command or send SIGHUP and BIRD
  74            will start using the new configuration, possibly restarting
  75            protocols affected by the configuration changes.
  76         o  Powerful language for route filtering (see doc/bird.conf.example).
  77
  78 What is missing:
  79
  80         o  OSPF for IPv6
  81         o  OSPF multiple areas and virtual links
  82         o  See the TODO list
  83
  84 Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :)
  85                                                 The BIRD Team