XORP 1.2 Extends Open-Source Routing to Windows

^{March 8, 2006}
On March 8th, XORP project leader Atanu Ghosh, research scientist at the International Computer Science Institute, announced the release of XORP (eXtensible Open Router Platform) version 1.2. The new release includes several significant new features, including support for Windows 2005, addition of a reconfigurable version of the OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) protocol, and implementation of a policy framework that is fully integrated across all routing protocols.

Made available under a BSD-style license, XORP provides software developers with a flexible and extensible set of routing capabilities that can be deployed on commodity hardware and adapted for use with home or corporate networks. The new Windows implementation extends these advantages beyond XORP's current Linux/Unix user base, to the larger Windows-based PC community.

XORP's clean-sheet implementation of the OSPF protocol is designed to allow executable code for both OSPF Version 2 and OSPF Version 3 to be generated from a single C++ code base, thus providing underlying support for both IPv4 and IPv6 routing applications. While only OSPFv2 is operative in the XORP 1.2 release, OSPFv3 is available for inspection and will be included in the next XORP update.

For more information on XORP, or to download XORP version 1.2, see www.XORP.org.

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