BIRD Programmer's Documentation

Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>

1. BIRD Design

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Design goals
• 1.3 Architecture
• 1.4 Implementation

2. Core

• 2.1 Forwarding Information Base
• 2.2 Routing tables
• 2.3 Route attribute cache
• 2.4 Routing protocols
• 2.5 Graceful restart recovery
• 2.6 Protocol hooks
• 2.7 Interfaces
• 2.8 Neighbor cache
• 2.9 Command line interface
• 2.10 Object locks

3. Configuration

• 3.1 Configuration manager
• 3.2 Lexical analyzer
• 3.3 Parser

4. Filters

• 4.1 Filters
• 4.2 Trie for prefix sets

5. Protocols

• 5.1 The Babel protocol
• 5.2 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
• 5.3 Border Gateway Protocol
• 5.4 Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) protocol
• 5.5 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
• 5.6 Pipe
• 5.7 Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
• 5.8 Router Advertisements
• 5.9 Static
• 5.10 Direct

6. System dependent parts

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Logging
• 6.3 Kernel synchronization

7. Library functions

• 7.1 IP addresses
• 7.2 Linked lists
• 7.3 Miscellaneous functions.
• 7.4 Message authentication codes

8. Resources

• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Resource pools
• 8.3 Memory blocks
• 8.4 Linear memory pools
• 8.5 Slabs
• 8.6 Events
• 8.7 Timers
• 8.8 Sockets