Dear BIRD community, I want to connect BIRD 1.5.0 with more than 1000 ExaBGP peers on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 Bit. Connecting 1000 peers works but if I increase the peer count to more than 1024 it fails due to the soft file limit of 1024. To raise that I tried the usual (ulimit, /etc/security/limits.conf) but BIRD doesnt take these new limits. Later I found the advice to add ulimit -n 10000 to the init.d script before each start-stop-daemon command. After restarting BIRD it gets the correct soft and hard limits (cat /proc/<pid>/limits | grep files). But now only 750 peers work and connecting 1000 peers crashs bird without any error message in syslog (log syslog all configured). (I did not test 751-999 peers.) It would be nice if somebody could help meJ. Thanks, Daniel Seidenstuecker