README

This the BGP4J project, an implementation of the BGP4 protocol in Java. 

Rationale:
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This projected was initiated by the need to manipulate routing tables in a fairly exotic use case. 

The first attempt was to talk to a specific routing daemon (quagga) and to reimplement the internal protocol in Java. This protocol is not
well-documented and it turned out that there was the need to reverse-engineer the quagga code. 
The reverse engineering could not be done in a feasible timeframe and an alternative approach was chosen.

BGP4 protocol support:
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The BGP4j project tries to implement the following standards or recommendations defined in:
- RFC 1997: BGP Communities attribute
- RFC 2858: Multiprotocol extensions for BGP-4
- RFC 2918: Route refreshment capability for BGP-4
- RFC 3065: Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
- RFC 3392: Capability advertisement in BGP-4
- RFC 4271: Border Gateway Protocol 4
- RFC 4893: BGP support for four-octet AS Numbers
- RFC 5668: 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community

License model:
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This software is published under the Apache License 2.0. For details see the included LICENSE file.

External dependencies:
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The project has the following external dependencies:
- Weld CDI framework (see http://www.seamframework/Weld), licensed under Apache 2.0
- SLF4J logging framework (see http://www.slf4j.org), licensed under MIT License
- LOG4j logging framework (see http://logging.apache.org/log4j/), licensed under Apache 2.0
- Commons CLI (see http://commons.apache.org/cli), licensed under Apache 2.0
- Commons Lang (see http://commons.apache.org/lang), licensed under Apache 2.0
- Netty network programming framework (see http://netty.io/), licensed under Apache 2.0
- SNMP4J (see http://www.snmp4j.org/), licensed under Apache 2.0