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{{Short description|Internet Protocol routing software}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = XORP
| logo                   = [[File:Xorp-logo.PNG|201px|XORP]]
| screenshot             =
| caption                =
| author                 = Mark Handley
| developer              = XORP Developers [http://www.xorp.org/people.html]
| released               = July 2004
| latest release version = 1.8.5
| latest release date    = January 11, 2012
| latest preview version =
| latest preview date    =
| programming language   = C++
| operating system       = Linux, BSD, Windows
| platform               =
| language               =
| status                 =
| genre                  = [[Routing]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License#Version 2|GNU GPLv2]], [[GNU Lesser General Public License|GNU LGPLv2.1]]<ref name="XORP license">{{cite web |url=https://github.com/greearb/xorp.ct/blob/master/xorp/LICENSE |title=XORP license}}</ref>
| website                = [http://www.xorp.org/ www.xorp.org]
}}

'''XORP''' is an [[open-source software|open-source]] [[Internet Protocol]] [[routing]] software suite originally designed at the [[International Computer Science Institute]] in Berkeley, California. The name is derived from ''eXtensible Open Router Platform''. It supports OSPF, BGP, RIP, PIM, IGMP, OLSR.

The product is designed from principles of software modularity and extensibility and aims at exhibiting stability and providing feature requirements for production use while also supporting networking research.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.xorp.org/papers/osr.pdf
|title=Proposal to Develop an Extensible Open Router Platform
|author=Mark Handley
|date=2000-11-30
|access-date=2009-09-14
|archive-date=2008-07-04
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704122359/http://www.xorp.org/papers/osr.pdf
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> The development project was founded by [[Mark Handley (computer scientist)|Mark Handley]] in 2000. Receiving funding from [[Intel]], [[Microsoft]], and the [[National Science Foundation]], it released its first production software in July 2004.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2004/tc20041129_5206_tc024.htm
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041201161949/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2004/tc20041129_5206_tc024.htm
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=December 1, 2004
|title=Does XORP Have Cisco's Number?
|date=2004-11-29
|author=Alex Salkever
|publisher=Business Week
}}</ref> The project was then run by [[Atanu Ghosh (computer scientist)|Atanu Ghosh]] of the [[International Computer Science Institute]], in [[Berkeley, California]].

In July 2008, the [[International Computer Science Institute]] transferred the XORP technology to a new entity, XORP Inc., a commercial startup founded by the leaders of the opensource project team and backed by Onset Ventures and [[Highland Capital Partners]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/542899/
|title=ICSI Spins out Venture-Backed XORP, Inc.
|date=2008-07-24
|publisher=International Computer Science Institute
}}</ref>  In February 2010, XORP Inc. was wound up, a victim of the recession.  However the open source project continued, with the servers based at [[University College London]].  In March 2011, Ben Greear became the project maintainer and the www.xorp.org server is now hosted by Candela Technologies.

The XORP codebase consists of around 670,000 lines of [[C++]] and is developed primarily on [[Linux]], but supported on [[FreeBSD]], [[OpenBSD]], [[DragonFlyBSD]], [[NetBSD]].  Support for XORP on [[Microsoft Windows]] was recently re-added to the development tree. XORP is available for download as a [[Live CD]] or as source code via the project's homepage.

The software suite was selected commercially as the routing platform for the [[Vyatta]] line of products in its early releases, but later has been replaced with [[Quagga (software)|quagga]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://money.cnn.com/2006/03/03/magazines/business2/telecomopensource/
|title=Will telecom go open-source?
|publisher=CNN Money.com
|date=2006-03-06}}</ref>

==Routing features==
{{IPstack}}
As of 2009, the project supports the following routing protocols:
*Static routing
*[[Routing Information Protocol]] (RIP and RIPng):
**{{IETF RFC|2453|link=no}} (RIP version 2)
**{{IETF RFC|2082|link=no}} (RIP-2 MD5 Authentication)
**{{IETF RFC|2080|link=no}} (RIPng for IPv6)
*[[Border Gateway Protocol]]:
**{{IETF RFC|4271|link=no}} (A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4))
**{{IETF RFC|3392|link=no}} (Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4)
**{{IETF RFC|4760|link=no}} (Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4)
**{{IETF RFC|2545|link=no}} (Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing)
**{{IETF RFC|1997|link=no}} (BGP Communities Attribute)
**{{IETF RFC|2796|link=no}} (BGP Route Reflection - An Alternative to Full Mesh IBGP)
**{{IETF RFC|3065|link=no}} (Autonomous System Confederations for BGP)
**{{IETF RFC|2439|link=no}} (BGP Route Flap Damping)
**{{IETF RFC|4893|link=no}} (BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space)
**{{IETF RFC|1657|link=no}} (Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) using SMIv2)
*[[Open Shortest Path First]] version 2 (OSPFv2) and version 3 (OSPFv3):
**{{IETF RFC|2328|link=no}} (OSPF Version 2)
**{{IETF RFC|3101|link=no}} (The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option)
**{{IETF RFC|5340|link=no}} (OSPF for IPv6)
*[[PIM Sparse Mode]] (PIM-SM):
**{{IETF RFC|4601|link=no}}
**{{IETF RFC|5059|link=no}}
* [[IGMP]] v1, v2, and v3:
**{{IETF RFC|2236|link=no}} (Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2)
**{{IETF RFC|3376|link=no}} (Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3)
*[[Multicast Listener Discovery]] (MLD v1 and v2):
**{{IETF RFC|2710|link=no}} (Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6)
**{{IETF RFC|3810|link=no}} (Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6)
*[[Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol]] (VRRP v2):
**{{IETF RFC|3768|link=no}}

==User interface==
XORP provides a command line interface for interactive configuration and operation monitoring. The interface is implemented as a distinct application called ''xorpsh'', that may be invoked by multiple users simultaneously. It interacts via [[interprocess communication]] with the router core modules. The command line language is modelled after that of [[Juniper Networks]]'s [[JunOS]] platform.

==See also==
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
*[[List of open source routing platforms]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.xorp.org/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513211127/http://www.xorp.org/ |date=2011-05-13 }}
* [https://xorp.sourceforge.net/ SourceForge website]
* [http://www.xorp.org/releases/current/docs/RELEASE_NOTES Release Notes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329113017/http://www.xorp.org/releases/current/docs/RELEASE_NOTES |date=2007-03-29 }}
* [http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/06/2125255 Slashdot discussion]

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