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1 | BIRD Internet Routing Daemon 0.0.0 |
| 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 | BIG FAT WARNING: This is still a development version which probably has lots | |
| 15 | of bugs and missing features (including documentation); see below for what is | |
| 16 | implemented and what still isn't. | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | Welcome to our alpha test team! If you want to help us debugging, enhancing | |
| 19 | and porting BIRD or just lurking around to see what's going to develop from | |
| 20 | this strange creature, feel free to subscribe to the BIRD users mailing | |
| 21 | list (bird-users@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, send subscribes to majordomo | |
| 22 | at the same machine). Bug reports, suggestions, feature requests (: and | |
| 23 | code :) are welcome. | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | BIRD has been developed as a student project at the Faculty of Math | |
| 26 | and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision | |
| 27 | of RNDr. Libor Forst <forst@cuni.cz>. | |
| 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 | What do we support: | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | o Both IPv4 and IPv6 (use --enable-ipv6 when configuring) | |
| 54 | o Multiple routing tables | |
| 55 | o BGP | |
| 56 | o RIP | |
| 57 | o Partial implementation of OSPF (IPv4 only; soon to be | |
| 58 | functional). | |
| 59 | o Static routes | |
| 60 | o Inter-table protocol | |
| 61 | o Command-line interface (using the `birdc' client; to get | |
| 62 | some help, just press `?') | |
| 63 | o Soft reconfiguration -- no online commands for changing the | |
| 64 | configuration in very limited ways, just edit the configuration | |
| 65 | file and issue a `configure' command or send SIGHUP and BIRD | |
| 66 | will start using the new configuration, possibly restarting | |
| 67 | protocols affected by the configuration changes. | |
| 68 | o Powerful language for route filtering (see doc/bird.conf.example). | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | Missing (see also the TODO file): | |
| 71 | ||
| 72 | o Rest of OSPF | |
| 73 | o Documentation | |
| 74 | ||
| 75 | ||
| 76 | Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :) | |
| 77 | The BIRD Team |