Run BIRD without binding to a local TCP socket?

[Eric Cables]

Is it possible to run BIRD in a speaker-only only mode, such that it does
not bind to a local TCP socket, for the BGP protocol? While i can bind BIRD
to different TCP ports at start-up, many vendors do not support specifying
a destination port other than tcp/179.

I'd like to run multiple instances of BIRD on a single server, each
instance peering with 1-4 peers. The goal is to distribute BIRD across
multiple cores, improving the number of queries per second to BIRD's
control socket.

I apologize if this has already been discussed, but an initial search of
the archives did not yield a similar request.

-- Eric Cables
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