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   14: <H2><A NAME="conclusion"></A> <A NAME="s7">7.</A> <A HREF="bird.html#toc7">Conclusions</A></H2>
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   16: <H2><A NAME="future-work"></A> <A NAME="ss7.1">7.1</A> <A HREF="bird.html#toc7.1">Future work</A>
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   19: <P>Although BIRD supports all the commonly used routing protocols, there are
   20: still some features which would surely deserve to be implemented in future
   21: versions of BIRD:
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   24: <LI>Opaque LSA's</LI>
   25: <LI>Route aggregation and flap dampening</LI>
   26: <LI>Multipath routes</LI>
   27: <LI>Multicast routing protocols</LI>
   28: <LI>Ports to other systems</LI>
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   32: <H2><A NAME="help"></A> <A NAME="ss7.2">7.2</A> <A HREF="bird.html#toc7.2">Getting more help</A>
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   34: 
   35: <P>If you use BIRD, you're welcome to join the bird-users mailing list
   36: (<A HREF="mailto:bird-users@network.cz">bird-users@network.cz</A>)
   37: where you can share your experiences with the other users and consult
   38: your problems with the authors. To subscribe to the list, visit
   39: <A HREF="http://bird.network.cz/?m_list">http://bird.network.cz/?m_list</A>.
   40: The home page of BIRD can be found at <A HREF="http://bird.network.cz/">http://bird.network.cz/</A>.
   41: <P>
   42: <P>BIRD is a relatively young system and it probably contains some bugs. You can
   43: report any problems to the bird-users list and the authors will be glad to solve
   44: them, but before you do so, please make sure you have read the available
   45: documentation and that you are running the latest version (available at
   46: <A HREF="ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird">bird.network.cz:/pub/bird</A>).
   47: (Of course, a patch which fixes the bug is always welcome as an attachment.)
   48: <P>
   49: <P>If you want to understand what is going inside, Internet standards are a good
   50: and interesting reading. You can get them from
   51: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/">ftp.rfc-editor.org</A> (or a
   52: nicely sorted version from <A HREF="ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/rfc">atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz:/pub/rfc</A>).
   53: <P>
   54: <P><I>Good luck!</I>
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