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FRRouting

Network routing software suite

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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).

01Supported protocols

FRR provides implementations of the following protocols:

It also provides alpha implementations of:

02History

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.

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