XORP

Infobox Software
name = XORP



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author = Mark Handley
developer = XORP Developers [http://www.xorp.org/people.html]
released = July 2004
latest release version = 1.5
latest release date = July 22, 2008
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genre = Routing
license = BSD-style [http://www.xorp.org/license.html]
website = [http://www.xorp.org/ www.xorp.org]

XORP, or Extensible Open Router Platform, is an open source routing software suite, aimed at being both stable and fully featured enough for production use and also extensible to support networking research. The project was founded by Mark Handley in 2000, with first production release in July 2004. The project is now headed by Atanu Ghosh of the International Computer Science Institute, in Berkeley, California.

As of 2007, the code supports the following routing protocols:
* BGP, including multiprotocol extensions for IPv6, Route Reflection, Confederations, Communities.
* RIP v2 for IPv4, and RIPng for IPv6
* OSPF [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2328.txt RFC 2328] (OSPFv2) and [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2740.txt RFC2740] (OSPFv3) for both IPv4 and IPv6
* PIM Sparse Mode for both IPv4 and IPv6
* IGMP v1, v2 and v3 (IPv4 only protocol)
* MLD v1 and v2 (IPv6 only protocol)

The XORP codebase consists of around 670,000 lines of C++, and is fairly portable running on FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X and there is even a port to Windows Server 2003 which only supports IPv4.

Interface style

The interface of xorpsh (the terminal environment of the XORP router platform) is quite similar to that of Juniper's JunOS platform. This contrasts with the common Cisco IOS style of interface.

External links

* [http://www.xorp.org/ Official website]
* [http://www.xorp.net/ XORP, Inc.]
* [http://www.xorp.org/releases/current/docs/RELEASE_NOTES Release Notes]
* [http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2004/tc20041129_5206_tc024.htm BusinessWeek article on XORP]
* [http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/03/magazines/business2/telecomopensource/ CNNMoney article on XORP]
* [http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/06/2125255 Slashdot discussion]