The BIRD Internet Routing Daemon

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.

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.

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Last modification: by Ondrej Filip 23.11.2020.