howto/Bird.md
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Bird is a commonly used BGP daemon. This page provides configuration and help to run Bird for dn42.
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Compared to quagga, bird supports multiple routing, which is useful, if you also plan to peer with other federated networks such as freifunk.
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+# Debian
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+The version in the Debian repositories might be quite old, therefore it makes sense to install a newer one directly from bird:
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+```
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+wget -O - http://bird.network.cz/debian/apt.key | apt-key add -
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+apt-get install lsb-release
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+echo "deb http://bird.network.cz/debian/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bird.list
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+apt-get update
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+apt-get install bird
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+```
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# Example configuration
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* Replace `<AS>` with your Autonomous System Number