Free Range Routing or FRRouting or FRR is a

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. FRRouting is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL2). FRR provides implementations of the following protocols: * Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) * Routing Information Protocol (RIP) * Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) *

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* Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) * Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) *

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* Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) * Ethernet VPN (EVPN) It also provides alpha implementations of: * Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) * Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)

History

FRRouting broke away from the free routing software Quagga. Several Quagga contributors, including

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, and BigSwitch Networks, citing frustration about the pace of development, decided to fork the software and form their own community.

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