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| FRRouting | |
|---|---|
| Release | April 3, 2017 |
| Stable release | 10.5.0[1]
/ November 10, 2025 |
| Written in | C, Python |
| Operating system | Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD |
| Predecessor | Quagga |
| License | GNU GPLv2 |
| Website | frrouting |
| Repository | |
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).
Supported protocols
[edit]FRR 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
[edit]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]
See also
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References
[edit]- ↑ "FRR Releases". FFRouting Github Page. 2025-11-10. Retrieved 2025-12-02.
- ↑ "Free Range Routing Project Forks Quagga". Packet Pushers. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
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