BGP Listen Port

Joshua McQuistan joshua.mcquistan at mcq.io
Sat Mar 10 12:08:07 CET 2018


On 10/03/18 01:57, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 12:28:23AM +0000, Joshua McQuistan wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>  From BIRD 2.0.0 I can see that the "listen bgp" command has been replaced
>> with "strict bind". However this means that BIRD can no longer listen on a
>> specific port.
>>
>> This is something I am using with 1.6.3 to operate separate BGP instances.
>> For example on a server with a main instance I can test on a different port
>> or on a switch where I don't want to replace the vendor's instance.
>>
>> Is this something that will return? Or have I missed something painfully
>> obvious?
> Hello
>
> We updated 'local' option so it can contain port, like 'remote' option.
> But forgot to add it to documentation. It should be:
>
> local [<ip>] [port <number>] [as <number>]
>
> Different BGP instances now could use separate ports even in one BIRD process.
>

Hello Ondrej,

Brilliant! It works perfectly, thank you.

Regards,
Joshua


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