FRR is free software that implements and manages various IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols. It runs on nearly all distributions of Linux and BSD as well as Solaris and supports all modern CPU architectures.

FRR currently supports the following protocols:

• BGP
• OSPFv2
• OSPFv3
• RIPv1
• RIPv2
• RIPng
• IS-IS
• PIM-SM/MSDP
• LDP
• BFD
• Babel
• PBR
• OpenFabric
• VRRP
• EIGRP (alpha)
• NHRP (alpha)

Packages are available for various distributions on our releases page.

Snaps are also available here.

Instructions on building and installing from source for supported platforms may be found here.

Once installed, please refer to the user guide for instructions on use.

The FRRouting email list server is located here and offers the following public lists:

For chat, we currently use Slack. You can join by clicking the "Slack" link under the Participate section of our website.

FRR maintains developer's documentation which contains the project workflow and expectations for contributors. Some technical documentation on project internals is also available.

We welcome and appreciate all contributions, no matter how small!

To report security issues, please use our security mailing list:

security [at] lists.frrouting.org