- BIRD Internet Routing Daemon 1.0.11
+ BIRD Internet Routing Daemon
(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--2013 CZ.NIC z.s.p.o.
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routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and powerful route
filtering language.
-This software should be considered a beta version. It has undergone extensive
-testing by the authors, but since it's the first public release, only a limited
-amount of "real life" experience is known and there still might be problems
-with operation in unusual environments.
-
If you want to help us debugging, enhancing and porting BIRD or just lurk
around to see what's going to develop from this strange creature, feel free
to subscribe to the BIRD users mailing list (bird-users@bird.network.cz),
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
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
What is missing:
- o OSPF for IPv6
- o OSPF multiple areas and virtual links
o See the TODO list
Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :)