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f2c642e0 | 1 | BIRD Internet Routing Daemon 1.0.6 |
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f54fa9e1 | 3 | (c) 1998--2004 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> |
d8033f22 | 4 | (c) 1998--2000 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> |
f54fa9e1 | 5 | (c) 1998--2004 Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz> |
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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. | |
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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/. | |
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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 | ||
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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). | |
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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 | |
89e7de98 | 66 | o OSPF (IPv4 only) |
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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84 | Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :) |
85 | The BIRD Team |