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# BIRD 2.18.1 User's Guide

## Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz>, Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>, Maria Matejka <mq@jmq.cz>, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>

Wed, 1 Apr 2026 18:26:51 +0200bird-userdoc

This document contains user documentation for the BIRD Internet Routing Daemon project.

## 1. Introduction

- 1.1 What is BIRD
- 1.2 Installing BIRD
- 1.3 Running BIRD
- 1.4 Privileges

## 2. Architecture

- 2.1 Routing tables
- 2.2 Routes and network types
- 2.3 Protocols and channels
- 2.4 Graceful restart
- 2.5 MPLS

## 3. Configuration

- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Global options
- 3.3 Routing table options
- 3.4 Protocol options
- 3.5 Channel options
- 3.6 MPLS options

## 4. Remote control

- 4.1 Overview
- 4.2 Configuration
- 4.3 Usage

## 5. Filters

- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Data types
- 5.3 Operators
- 5.4 Control structures
- 5.5 Route attributes
- 5.6 Other statements

## 6. Protocols

- 6.1 Aggregator
- 6.2 Babel
- 6.3 BFD
- 6.4 BGP
- 6.5 BMP
- 6.6 Device
- 6.7 Direct
- 6.8 Kernel
- 6.9 L3VPN
- 6.10 MRT
- 6.11 OSPF
- 6.12 Perf
- 6.13 Pipe
- 6.14 RAdv
- 6.15 RIP
- 6.16 RPKI
- 6.17 Static

## 7. Conclusions

- 7.1 Future work
- 7.2 Getting more help

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