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bird2 ver 2.0.7

    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--2019  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
   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 current development code in Git repository
   52: 	   https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/
   53: 
   54: See the file INSTALL for information about installation from source code.
   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
   62: on your machine. You can also download a neatly formatted PDF version as
   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