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authorMartin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>2000-06-08 17:44:52 +0200
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- BIRD Internet Routing Daemon 0.0.0
+ BIRD Internet Routing Daemon 1.0.0
(c) 1998--2000 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
(c) 1998--2000 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
@@ -11,18 +11,14 @@ 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.
+If you want to help us debugging, enhancing and porting BIRD or just lurk
+around to see what's going to develop from this strange creature, feel free
+to subscribe to the BIRD users mailing list (bird-users@bird.network.cz),
+send subscribes to majordomo at the same machine). Bug reports, suggestions,
+feature requests (: and code :) are welcome.
-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/.
+You can download the latest version from ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
+and look at the BIRD home page at http://bird.network.cz/.
BIRD has been developed as a student project at the Faculty of Math
and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision
@@ -50,14 +46,17 @@ How to install BIRD:
make install
vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf
+Online documentation is available as HTML files in the doc directory.
+You can also download a neatly formatted PostScript version as a separate
+archive (bird-doc-*.tar.gz).
+
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 OSPF (IPv4 only)
o Static routes
o Inter-table protocol
o Command-line interface (using the `birdc' client; to get
@@ -69,11 +68,5 @@ What do we support:
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