About:
BIRD is a dynamic routing daemon for UNIX-like systems. It should support all routing protocols used in the contemporary Internet, such as BGP, OSPF, RIP, and their IPv6 variants (except for OSPFv3 which is still under development). It also features a very flexible configuration mechanism, and a route filtering language.

Author:
The BIRD Team (Ondrej Filip, Pavel Machek, Martin Mares) <bird __at__ bird __dot__ network __dot__ cz> [contact developer]

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8.48/10.00 (2 votes)

Homepage:
http://bird.network.cz/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		Other Audience, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: NetBSD, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Internet, System :: Networking

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.0.11	21-Feb-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] A very important project
by Shaman - Apr 7th 2003 10:16:36

Kudos on bringing a software package out for this.
There is a real lack of support for OSPF and BGP
implementations that work on Linux or BSD.

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[»] Re: A very important project
by David GLAUDE - Aug 20th 2003 08:56:02

It would be nice to know how it is different from Zebra. Also it seems to support multiple routing table, but it seems to lack a way to simulate a network by having multiple virtual router (not using real interface) talking to each other accross virtual interface (I was hoping the protocol "pipe" was that but... no).

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[»] Re: A very important project
by Ondrej Feela Filip - Jul 15th 2004 10:38:38

For simulation of more routers in one computer use UML. Look at NetKit for a good example.

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