Can I turn my Linux machine into a router by installing The BIRD Internet Routing Daemon?

Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming tdtemccnp at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 16:33:44 CET 2022


On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 at 23:30, Kevin P. Fleming via Bird-users
<bird-users at trubka.network.cz> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2022, at 09:31, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via Bird-users wrote:
> > Can I turn my Linux machine into a router by installing The BIRD
> > Internet Routing Daemon?
>
> Your Linux machine can be a router without the use of *any* routing protocol daemon at all. Daemons are used when you want your router to exchange route information with other routers/networks for dynamic routing updates. If your routes are static, you can configure them in the network configuration in your machine and that's sufficient.

Noted with thanks.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore



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