- BIRD Internet Routing Daemon 1.0.0
+ BIRD Internet Routing Daemon
- (c) 1998--2000 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
+ (c) 1998--2008 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
(c) 1998--2000 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
- (c) 1998--2000 Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz>
+ (c) 1998--2008 Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz>
+ (c) 2009--2013 CZ.NIC z.s.p.o.
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You can download the latest version from ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
and look at the BIRD home page at http://bird.network.cz/.
-BIRD has been developed 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
-of RNDr. Libor Forst <forst@cuni.cz>.
+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.
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
make install
vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf
-Online documentation is available as HTML files in the doc directory.
-You can also download a neatly formatted PostScript version as a separate
-archive (bird-doc-*.tar.gz).
+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 Multiple routing tables
o BGP
o RIP
- o OSPF (IPv4 only)
+ 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
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 :)
The BIRD Team