- Add comment on patches, by picking from cvs log
(upstream)
- Update bird and bird6 from 1.3.11 to 1.4.5
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Version 1.4.5 (2014-10-06)
o New 'show route noexport' command option.
o Port option for BGP sessions.
o Better constant handling in set literals.
o Better rate filtering of log messages.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.4.4 (2014-07-09)
o Extended OSPF multipath support.
o Default router preference for RAdv.
o Significant changes in socket layer.
o Important bugfix in BGP.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.4.3 (2014-04-14)
o Important bugfix in IPv6 BGP.
Version 1.4.2 (2014-04-02)
o Important bugfix in BFD.
Version 1.4.1 (2014-03-31)
o BGP add-path support (RFC draft).
o BGP graceful restart (RFC 4724).
o OSPF: many changes in socket layer.
o OSPF: support for secondary addresses in BSD.
o OSPF: names for vlink pseudointerfaces (vlinkX).
o Several bugfixes.
Version 1.4.0 (2013-11-25)
o BFD protocol (RFC 5880).
o BFD support for OSPF and BGP.
o New 'allow local as' option for BGP.
o Filters allows setting gw, ifname and ifindex.
o Filter operator 'delete/filter' extended to bgp_paths.
o Filter operator 'len' extended to [e]clists.
o BIRD client now allows shorthands for noninteractive commands.
o Flag -P for PID file support.
o Flag -f added to force BIRD to run in foreground.
o Protocol export/import/receive limits are checked during reconfiguration.
o Several bugfixes and minor improvements.
o Several minor but incompatible changes:
- IBGP is multihop by default.
- Changes primary address selection on BSD to the first one.
- Integers in filters are handled as unsigned.
- ISO 8601 time formats used by default.
- Import of device routes from kernel protocol allowed.
- Last state change now tracks just protocol state change.
- Minor changes to default router ID calculation.
o OSPF stub router option (RFC 3137).
o TTL security for OSPF and RIP.
o Protocol packet priority and traffic class handling.
o Multiple routing tables support for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
o Extends constants to all filter data types.
o Implements eval command.
o 'bgppath ~ int set' filter operation.
o Several bugfixes.
Version 1.3.10 (2013-04-30)
o Lightweight BIRD client for embedded environments.
o Dynamic IPv6 router advertisements.
o New 'next hop keep' option for BGP.
o Smart default routing table for 'show route export/preexport/protocol'.
o Automatic router ID selection could be configured to use address of loopback.
o Allows configured global addresses of NBMA neighbors in OSPFv3.
o Allows BIRD commands from UNIX shell even in restricted mode.
o Route limits inherited from templates can be disabled.
o Symbol names enclosed by apostrophes can contain dots.
o Several bugfixes.
Version 1.3.9 (2013-01-11)
o BIRD can be configured to keep and show filtered routes.
o Separate receive and import limits.
o Several new reconfiguration cmd options (undo, timeout, check).
o Configurable automatic router ID selection.
o Dragonfly BSD support.
o Fixed OSPFv3 vlinks.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.3.8 (2012-08-07)
o Generalized import and export route limits.
o RDNSS and DNSSL support for RAdv.
o Include in config file support wildcards.
o History deduplication in BIRD client.
o New route attributes krt_source, krt_metric.
o Different instance ID support for OSPFv3.
o Real broadcast mode for OSPFv2.
o Several minor bugfixes.
Version 1.3.7 (2012-03-22)
o Route Origin Authorization basics.
o RIPng working again.
o Extended clist operations in filters.
o Fixes several bugs in BSD iface handling.
o Several minor bugfixes and enhancements.
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USE_GNU_READLINE are removed,
* .include "../../devel/readline/buildlink3.mk" without USE_GNU_READLINE
are replaced with .include "../../mk/readline.buildlink3.mk".
tnn) into the Packages Collection.
The BIRD project aims to develop a fully functional dynamic IP
routing daemon primarily targetted on (but not limited to)
UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General Public
License.
- This package is for IPv4, a separate IPv6 package is available
- Multiple routing tables
- BGP
- RIP
- OSPF
- Static routes
- Inter-table protocol
- Command-line interface
- Soft reconfiguration
- Powerful language for route filtering
Updated by myself from bird-1.3.4 to 1.3.6 (to correct a BGP protocol problem).
