The Bird Project
Bird is a routing daemon primarily developed for the Linux operating system. The following list presents some useful details about the software:
Version? Bird 1.0.8 (by Charles University; Prague, Czech Republic; Mathematics and Physics Department)
Architecture? Monolithic routing daemon
Resources? http://bird.network.cz
Feature Description of Bird
The Bird daemon supports IPv4/v6, BGPv4, RIPv2, OSPFv2 (IPv4 only), static routes, and multiple routing tables on Linux. Its configuration syntax is similar to GateD and offers a powerful filter language.
Installation of Bird
The following installation steps are rather straightforward, but they might assist those of you who are unfamiliar with UNIX installation procedures:
- Get and extract source archive bird-1.0.8.tar.gz and the documentation bird-doc-1.0.8.tar.gz.
- cd to the Bird source directory.
- Check configuration options: ./configure --help
- Type: ./configure -with-protocols='ospf rip pipe static bgp'
- Type: make
- Type: make install
- Check bird -? for options.
- To fire up the demon, type: bird
The default configuration file is /usr/local/etc/bird.conf. - Access bird via the birdc client. Type: birdc-?
Maturity, Scalability, and Stability of Bird
I have had only a brief look at the package without interoperability testing. It compiles without a glitch on my Linux platform with IPv6 disabled. IPv6 caused troubles. The architecture itself looks sound.
