FRRouting

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FRRouting
Initial releaseApril 3, 2017;7 years ago (2017-04-03)
Stable release
10.1.1 [1] / September 12, 2024;2 days ago (2024-09-12)
Repository github.com/FRRouting/frr
Written in C, Python
Operating system Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD
Predecessor Quagga
License GNU GPLv2
Website frrouting.org

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).

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Supported protocols

FRR provides implementations of the following protocols:

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]

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References

  1. "FRR Releases". FFRouting Github Page. 2023-12-08. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  2. "Free Range Routing Project Forks Quagga". Packet Pushers. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2019-01-04.