The BIRD Internet Routing Daemon

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

17.12.2024 - New release 3.0.0! First stable mulithreaded version!

What do we support:

Both IPv4 and IPv6
Multiple routing tables
BGP
RIP
OSPF
BFD
Babel
Static routes
IPv6 Router Advertisements
Inter-table protocol
Command-line interface (using the `birdc' client; to get some help, just press `?')
Powerful language for route filtering
Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD ports

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. Current BIRD team members are:

Ondřej Filip (OSPF, BSD port, releases, packaging)
Martin Mareš (overall architecture, core, dumps, BGP)
Ondřej Zajíček (New BGP features, OSPFv3, BFD)
Maria Matějka (MPLS, filters, multithreading)

Former BIRD team members were Libor Forst and Pavel Machek.

Last modification: by Ondrej Filip 23.11.2020.

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