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1.1 ! misho 1: BIRD Internet Routing Daemon
! 2:
! 3: Home page http://bird.network.cz/
! 4: Mailing list bird-users@network.cz
! 5:
! 6: (c) 1998--2008 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
! 7: (c) 1998--2000 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
! 8: (c) 1998--2008 Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz>
! 9: (c) 2009--2016 CZ.NIC z.s.p.o.
! 10:
! 11: ================================================================================
! 12:
! 13: The BIRD project aims to develop a dynamic IP routing daemon with full support
! 14: of all modern routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and
! 15: powerful route filtering language, primarily targeted on (but not limited to)
! 16: Linux and other UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General
! 17: Public License.
! 18:
! 19: What do we support
! 20: ==================
! 21:
! 22: o Both IPv4 and IPv6 (use --enable-ipv6 when configuring)
! 23: o Multiple routing tables
! 24: o Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv4)
! 25: o Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2, RIPng)
! 26: o Open Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2, OSPFv3)
! 27: o Babel Routing Protocol (Babel)
! 28: o Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
! 29: o IPv6 router advertisements
! 30: o Static routes
! 31: o Inter-table protocol
! 32: o Command-line interface allowing on-line control and inspection of
! 33: status of the daemon
! 34: o Soft reconfiguration, no need to use complex online commands to
! 35: change the configuration, just edit the configuration file and notify
! 36: BIRD to re-read it and it will smoothly switch itself to the new
! 37: configuration, not disturbing routing protocols unless they are
! 38: affected by the configuration changes
! 39: o Powerful language for route filtering, see doc/bird.conf.example
! 40: o Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD ports
! 41:
! 42: How to install BIRD
! 43: ===================
! 44:
! 45: o From standard distribution package of your OS (recommended)
! 46: o From official binary packages for Debian and Red Hat Linux
! 47: ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/debian/
! 48: ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/redhat/
! 49: o From source code of the latest stable release version
! 50: ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
! 51: o From source code of the actual development version
! 52: git://git.nic.cz/bird.git
! 53: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/
! 54:
! 55: How to install BIRD from source code
! 56: ------------------------------------
! 57:
! 58: $ ./configure
! 59: $ make
! 60: $ su
! 61: # make install
! 62: # vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf
! 63:
! 64: See the file INSTALL for more information about installation from source code.
! 65:
! 66: Documentation
! 67: =============
! 68:
! 69: Online documentation is available at http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc or as HTML
! 70: files in the doc directory, you can install it by `make install-docs' and
! 71: rebuild it by `make docs', but you'll need SGMLtools and LaTeX to be installed
! 72: on your machine. You can also download a neatly formatted PostScript version as
! 73: a separate archive (bird-doc-*.tar.gz) from ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
! 74:
! 75: User support
! 76: ============
! 77:
! 78: If you want to help us debugging, enhancing and porting BIRD or just lurk
! 79: around to see what's going to develop, feel free to subscribe to the BIRD
! 80: users mailing list bird-users@network.cz, just send `subscribe' to
! 81: bird-request@network.cz. Bug reports, suggestions, feature requests and
! 82: code are welcome! We don't use gitlab issues for reporting, sorry.
! 83:
! 84: Subscribe: http://bird.network.cz/mailman/listinfo/bird-users/
! 85: Archive: http://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/
! 86:
! 87: Licence
! 88: =======
! 89:
! 90: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
! 91: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
! 92: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
! 93: (at your option) any later version.
! 94:
! 95: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
! 96: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
! 97: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
! 98: GNU General Public License for more details.
! 99:
! 100: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
! 101: along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
! 102: Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
! 103:
! 104: History
! 105: =======
! 106:
! 107: BIRD development started as a student project at the Faculty of Math
! 108: and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision
! 109: of RNDr. Libor Forst <forst@cuni.cz>. BIRD has been developed and supported
! 110: by CZ.NIC z.s.p.o. http://www.nic.cz/ since 2009.
! 111:
! 112:
! 113: Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :)
! 114: The BIRD Team
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