The BIRD Internet Routing Daemon

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BIRD User's Guide (version 2.16.1)

Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz>, Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>, Maria Matejka <mq@jmq.cz>, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>

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This document contains user documentation for the BIRD Internet Routing Daemon project.

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1. Introduction

• 1.1 What is BIRD
• 1.2 Installing BIRD
• 1.3 Running BIRD
• 1.4 Privileges

2. Architecture

• 2.1 Routing tables
• 2.2 Routes and network types
• 2.3 Protocols and channels
• 2.4 Graceful restart
• 2.5 MPLS

3. Configuration

• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Global options
• 3.3 Routing table options
• 3.4 Protocol options
• 3.5 Channel options
• 3.6 MPLS options

4. Remote control

• 4.1 Overview
• 4.2 Configuration
• 4.3 Usage

5. Filters

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Data types
• 5.3 Operators
• 5.4 Control structures
• 5.5 Route attributes
• 5.6 Other statements

6. Protocols

• 6.1 Aggregator
• 6.2 Babel
• 6.3 BFD
• 6.4 BGP
• 6.5 BMP
• 6.6 Device
• 6.7 Direct
• 6.8 Kernel
• 6.9 L3VPN
• 6.10 MRT
• 6.11 OSPF
• 6.12 Perf
• 6.13 Pipe
• 6.14 RAdv
• 6.15 RIP
• 6.16 RPKI
• 6.17 Static

7. Conclusions

• 7.1 Future work
• 7.2 Getting more help

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