FRRouting
Free Range Routing or FRRouting or FRR is a network routing software suite running on Unix-like platforms, particularly Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD. It was created as a fork from Quagga. FRRouting is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL2).
| Initial release | April 3, 2017 |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 8.5[1]
/ March 18, 2023 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD |
| Predecessor | Quagga |
| License | GNU GPLv2 |
| Website | frrouting |
FRR provides implementations of the following protocols:
- Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
- Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
- Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
- IS-IS
- Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
- Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
- Babel
- Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
- Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
It also provides alpha implementations of:
History
FRRouting broke away from the free routing software Quagga. Several Quagga contributors, including Cumulus Networks, 6WIND, and BigSwitch Networks, citing frustration about the pace of development, decided to fork the software and form their own community.[2]
References
- "FRR Release 8.5". FFRouting Github Page. 2023-03-18. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- "Free Range Routing Project Forks Quagga". Packet Pushers. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
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