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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>
1.1.1.2 ! misho       9:                 (c) 2009--2019  CZ.NIC z.s.p.o.
1.1       misho      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/
1.1.1.2 ! misho      51:        o  From current development code in Git repository
1.1       misho      52:           https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/
                     53: 
1.1.1.2 ! misho      54: See the file INSTALL for information about installation from source code.
1.1       misho      55: 
                     56: Documentation
                     57: =============
                     58: 
                     59: Online documentation is available at http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc or as HTML
                     60: files in the doc directory, you can install it by `make install-docs' and
                     61: rebuild it by `make docs', but you'll need SGMLtools and LaTeX to be installed
1.1.1.2 ! misho      62: on your machine. You can also download a neatly formatted PDF version as
1.1       misho      63: a separate archive (bird-doc-*.tar.gz) from ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
                     64: 
                     65: User support
                     66: ============
                     67: 
                     68: If you want to help us debugging, enhancing and porting BIRD or just lurk
                     69: around to see what's going to develop, feel free to subscribe to the BIRD
                     70: users mailing list bird-users@network.cz, just send `subscribe' to
                     71: bird-request@network.cz. Bug reports, suggestions, feature requests and
                     72: code are welcome! We don't use gitlab issues for reporting, sorry.
                     73: 
                     74: Subscribe:     http://bird.network.cz/mailman/listinfo/bird-users/
                     75: Archive:       http://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/
                     76: 
                     77: Licence
                     78: =======
                     79: 
                     80: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
                     81: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
                     82: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
                     83: (at your option) any later version.
                     84: 
                     85: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
                     86: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
                     87: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
                     88: GNU General Public License for more details.
                     89: 
                     90: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
                     91: along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
                     92: Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
                     93: 
                     94: History
                     95: =======
                     96: 
                     97: BIRD development started as a student project at the Faculty of Math
                     98: and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision
                     99: of RNDr. Libor Forst <forst@cuni.cz>. BIRD has been developed and supported
                    100: by CZ.NIC z.s.p.o. http://www.nic.cz/ since 2009.
                    101: 
                    102: 
                    103: Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :)
                    104:                                                The BIRD Team

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