Bird Internet Routing Daemon

BIRD is an open- source implementation of IPv4 and IPv6-capable TCP / IP routing daemon, which was originally developed at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague and now further developed by the CZ.NIC Labs and is financed.

Currently, BIRD supports multiple internal routing tables, the EGP, BGP, OSPF and RIP, the IGP and static routes. Furthermore, BIRD can also send through the implementation rAdV the routers used in the IPv6 autoconfiguration advertisements.

Meanwhile BIRD has replaced as a route server to most European IXPs, including the DE- CIX, AMS -IX, LINX and the ECIX According to the report published in 2011 of the Euro -IX with a 41% share of alternatives such as quagga, which, among other related to the reduced use of resources.

A significant difference to the better-known quagga is that BIRD is configured via a configuration file, the change is notified to the daemon afterwards, which then reloads these instead of a telnet interface.

2010 the CZ.NIC the LINX Conspicuous Contribution Award was awarded.