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, which itself was a fork of GNU Zebra. FRRouting is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL2).
| Initial release | April 3, 2017 |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 10.1.1[1]
/ September 12, 2024 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | C, Python |
| Operating system | Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD |
| Predecessor | Quagga |
| License | GNU GPLv2 |
| Website | frrouting |
Supported protocols
editFRR 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
editFRRouting 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]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "FRR Releases". FFRouting Github Page. 2023-12-08. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
- ^ "Free Range Routing Project Forks Quagga". Packet Pushers. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
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