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Jan Maria Matejka
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This changes behaviour of rte_update() and rte_update2(). Formerly, the caller of rte_update2() took care of caching rta and allocating rte; then rte_update2() freed the structures if it didn't use them. Now rte_update2() does the permanent/global copies of rte+rta itself. Allocation of rte+rta passed to rte_update2() is considered temporary and the caller is also responsible to free these structures properly. This is true for any kind of allocation: rte_update2() will always allocate its own copy of the data passed (either really or just by raising usecount in rta cache). It is now possible (and in many protocols now used) to allocate rte+rta on stack and pass them to rte_update(). It will deal with them correctly.
BIRD Internet Routing Daemon
Home page http://bird.network.cz/
Mailing list [email protected]
(c) 1998--2008 Martin Mares <[email protected]>
(c) 1998--2000 Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
(c) 1998--2008 Ondrej Filip <[email protected]>
(c) 2009--2017 CZ.NIC z.s.p.o.
================================================================================
The BIRD project aims to develop a dynamic IP routing daemon with full support
of all modern routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and
powerful route filtering language, primarily targeted on (but not limited to)
Linux and other UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General
Public License.
What do we support
==================
o Both IPv4 and IPv6
o Multiple routing tables
o Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv4)
o Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2, RIPng)
o Open Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2, OSPFv3)
o Babel Routing Protocol (Babel)
o Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
o IPv6 router advertisements
o Static routes
o Inter-table protocol
o Command-line interface allowing on-line control and inspection of
status of the daemon
o Soft reconfiguration, no need to use complex online commands to
change the configuration, just edit the configuration file and notify
BIRD to re-read it and it will smoothly switch itself to the new
configuration, not disturbing routing protocols unless they are
affected by the configuration changes
o Powerful language for route filtering, see doc/bird.conf.example
o Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD ports
How to install BIRD
===================
o From standard distribution package of your OS (recommended)
o From official binary packages for Debian and Red Hat Linux
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/debian/
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/redhat/
o From source code of the latest stable release version
ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
o From source code of the actual development version
git://git.nic.cz/bird.git
https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/
How to install BIRD from source code
------------------------------------
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su
# make install
# vi /usr/local/etc/bird.conf
See the file INSTALL for more information about installation from source code.
Documentation
=============
Online documentation is available at http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc or as HTML
files in the doc directory, you can install it by `make install-docs' and
rebuild it by `make docs', but you'll need SGMLtools and LaTeX to be installed
on your machine. You can also download a neatly formatted PostScript version as
a separate archive (bird-doc-*.tar.gz) from ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/
User support
============
If you want to help us debugging, enhancing and porting BIRD or just lurk
around to see what's going to develop, feel free to subscribe to the BIRD
users mailing list [email protected], just send `subscribe' to
[email protected]. Bug reports, suggestions, feature requests and
code are welcome! We don't use gitlab issues for reporting, sorry.
Subscribe: http://bird.network.cz/mailman/listinfo/bird-users/
Archive: http://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/
Licence
=======
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
History
=======
BIRD development started as a student project at the Faculty of Math
and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic under supervision
of RNDr. Libor Forst <[email protected]>. BIRD has been developed and supported
by CZ.NIC z.s.p.o. http://www.nic.cz/ since 2009.
Good Luck and enjoy the BIRD :)
The BIRD Team