The BIRD Internet Routing Daemon

The BIRD project aims to develop a fully functional dynamic IP routing daemon primarily targetted on (but not limited to) UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

What do we support:

• Both IPv4 and IPv6 (use --enable-ipv6 when configuring)
• Multiple routing tables
• BGP
• RIP
• OSPF
• Static routes
• Inter-table protocol
• Command-line interface (using the `birdc' client; to get some help, just press `?')
• Soft reconfiguration -- no online commands for changing the configuration in very limited ways, just edit the configuration file and issue a `configure' command or send SIGHUP and BIRD will start using the new configuration, possibly restarting protocols affected by the configuration changes
• Powerful language for route filtering

BIRD was developed as a school project at Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University Prague. Currently it is developed and supported by CZ.NIC Labs. The BIRD team members are:

• Ondrej Filip (OSPF, BSD port, releases, packaging)
• Libor Forst (leader of our team)
• Pavel Machek (RIP, filters)
• Martin Mares (overall architecture, core, dumps, BGP)
• Ondrej Zajicek (New BGP features, OSPFv3)

There also exists a mailing-list of BIRD developers and users: bird-users@network.cz. To subscribe to the list, just send a subscribe bird-users command in a body of a mail to majordomo@network.cz.

You can look at the current source snapshots and releases.