FAQ-able questions for BIRD

[David Ranch]

 >We've looked at Zebra, but we have decided that creating a new routing daemon
 >from scratch is about as much work as rewriting Zebra to suit all our needs.

Ouch!  Is their implementation poorly written?

 >Not yet. We'd like to finish IPv6 support (especially OSPFv3) first.
 >Anyway, if there will be any volunteers, we'll be happy to integrate
 >any reasonable multicast routing code and help with writing it.

Is this a new version of OSPF based on a set of RFCs and the like?
  From my understanding, we're all running v2 today.


 >So unless
 >you are short on disk space, the best solution is to compile bird with
 >all protocols enabled and select what you want to use in the config file.

But say I have a network running and I have some new crappy subnet
that will ONLY run RIP (hmmmmm.. IPX...).  If I could load the RIP module,
I  could leave my BGP and OSPF neighbors up.  With a recompile, I would
have to shut down and restart the routing daemon.  For a simple project,
this isn't an issue but if you want to make your tool truly for an
enterprise, this would be a huge issue for at least me.

--David
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