<div dir="ltr">Yes, this can work, and will achieve my stated goal. My stated goal, however, does not tell the whole story...<div><br></div><div>I suppose my follow-up to this would be -- Can BIRD run in a shadow/read-only mode, allowing a primary BIRD process to read/write data into memory, but multiple BIRD processes to read the primary's memory space, each with a unique control socket for direct queries?</div>
<div><br></div><div>The above is meant to serve as an extremely scalable system for querying BIRD directly, while distributing queries across multiple read-only workers; at the same time not duplicating the memory space of the parent BIRD process for each worker. As it stands, the BIRD memory space I am trying to query consumes about 1.1GB, and yields 5,000 queries per second before a core reaches 99% CPU. I would like to scale this out, and achieve (5,000 * n) QPS without also consuming (1.1GB * n) memory.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br>-- Eric Cables</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Ondrej Zajicek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:santiago@crfreenet.org" target="_blank">santiago@crfreenet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 06:05:01PM -0700, Eric Cables wrote:<br>
> Is it possible to run BIRD in a speaker-only only mode, such that it does<br>
> not bind to a local TCP socket, for the BGP protocol? While i can bind BIRD<br>
> to different TCP ports at start-up, many vendors do not support specifying<br>
> a destination port other than tcp/179.<br>
<br>
</div>There is no option for this, but you could either bind BIRD instances to<br>
a different port or to a different IP (listen option). If you bind BIRD<br>
to a different port, you don't need to configure neighbors - outgoing<br>
connections will be still to tcp/179.<br>
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