BIRD Internet Routing Daemon

    (c) 1998--2008  Martin Mares <[email protected]>
            (c) 1998--2000  Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
            (c) 1998--2008  Ondrej Filip <[email protected]>

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The BIRD project is an attempt to create a routing daemon running on UNIX-like systems (but not necessarily limited to them) with full support of all modern 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 ([email protected]), send subscribes to majordomo at the same machine). Bug reports, suggestions, feature requests (: and code :) are welcome.

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 and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision of RNDr. Libor Forst [email protected].

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
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

How to install BIRD:

./configure
make
make install
vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf

Online documentation is available as HTML files in the doc directory, you can install it by make install-docs' and rebuild it bymake 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  Both IPv4 and IPv6 (use --enable-ipv6 when configuring)
o  Multiple routing tables
o  BGP
o  RIP
o  OSPF
o  Static routes
o  Inter-table protocol
o  Command-line interface (using the `birdc' client; to get
   some help, just press `?')
o  Soft reconfiguration -- no online commands for changing the
   configuration in very limited ways, just edit the configuration
   file and issue a `configure' command or send SIGHUP and BIRD
   will start using the new configuration, possibly restarting
   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