GNU Zebra -- Free Routing Software for IPv6

[Kunihiro Ishiguro]

Hi, this is Kunihiro Ishiguro of Digital Magic Labs, Inc.

I hereby announce the development of `GNU Zebra' is going on.  Zebra
is the one of the official component of the GNU System and distributed
under GNU General Public License.  Some organizations are already
connecting to 6bone using Zebra.  Zebra features are listed below:

  o Zebra is a routing software which is made from collection of
    daemons such as `zebra',`ripd',`ripngd',`ospfd',`ospf6d',`bgpd'.
    `zebra' is kernel dependent routine daemon.  Others are for
    routing protocol management.
  o Zebra has (very) CISCO like configuration file.  So you may can
    configure it easily ;-).
  o Terminal interface has Emacs like command line editing, history,
    exelent completion and help.
  o `access-list', `distribute-list', `ip prefix-list', `route-map'
    are supported.
  o All configuration can be dynamically changed from terminal
    interface.
  o You can make new routing protocol daemen very easily by using
    Zebra protocol and library.
  o Off course IPv6 routing protocols supported.

Currently Zebra runs on below platforms:

  GNU/Linux 2.0.X, GNU/Linux 2.2.X, FreeBSD 2.2.X, FreeBSD 3.X, 
  FreeBSD 4.X, NetBSD 1.3, OpenBSD 2.4

And also IPv6 stack such as 

  GNU/Linux 2.2, INRIA IPv6, NRI IPv6, KAME

are supported.

Now Zebra speaks below routing protocols:

  o RIP version 2 support.
  o RIPng support.
  o BGP-4 support.
  o BGP-4+ support.
  o OSPF and OSPF for IPv6 is not yet finished but partly working.

Please note Zebra is still under development and there is no release
in the past.  You can get beta version from

  ftp://ftp.zebra.org/pub/zebra/

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.  Please send them to the
Zebra discussion list <zebra@zebra.org>.  Please send bug report to
Zebra bug report list <bug-zebra@gnu.org>.  If you think Zebra is
useful I'm very happy with it.
--
Kunihiro Ishiguro <kunihiro@zebra.org>
Zebra home page <http://www.zebra.org/>