Date:	Thu, 11 May 2000 19:13:47 +0200
From:	Martin Mares <mj@suse.cz>
To:	linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Announce: BIRD Routing Daemon

Hello, world!\n

   I'm glad to announce the first public alpha version of the BIRD Internet
Routing Daemon which is a GPL'ed routing daemon for UNIX-like systems.
You can download it from ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/bird/bird-0.0.0.tar.gz.
If you want to know more, there is the README from the distribution archive.

							Martin Mares

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The BIRD project is an attempt to create a routing daemon running on UNIX-like
systems (but not necessarily limited to them) with full support of all modern
routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and powerful route
filtering language.

BIG FAT WARNING: This is still a development version which probably has lots
of bugs and missing features (including documentation); see below for what is
implemented and what still isn't.

Welcome to our alpha test team!  If you want to help us debugging, enhancing
and porting BIRD or just lurking around to see what's going to develop from
this strange creature, feel free to subscribe to the BIRD users mailing
list (bird-users@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, send subscribes to majordomo
at the same machine).  Bug reports, suggestions, feature requests (: and
code :) are welcome.

You can download the latest version from ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/bird/.

BIRD has been developed as a student project at the Faculty of Math
and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision
of RNDr. Libor Forst <forst@cuni.cz>.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA


How to install BIRD:

	./configure
	make
	make install
	vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf

What do we support:

	o  Both IPv4 and IPv6 (use --enable-ipv6 when configuring)
	o  Multiple routing tables
	o  BGP
	o  RIP
	o  Partial implementation of OSPF (IPv4 only; soon to be
	   functional).
	o  Static routes
	o  Inter-table protocol
	o  Command-line interface (using the `birdc' client; to get
	   some help, just press `?')
	o  Soft reconfiguration -- no online commands for changing the
	   configuration in very limited ways, just edit the configuration
	   file and issue a `configure' command or send SIGHUP and BIRD
	   will start using the new configuration, possibly restarting
	   protocols affected by the configuration changes.
	o  Powerful language for route filtering (see doc/bird.conf.example).

Missing (see also the TODO file):

	o  Rest of OSPF
	o  Documentation (see the doc/ directory for a skeleton)


Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :)
						The BIRD Team
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