Run BIRD without binding to a local TCP socket?

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 06:05:01PM -0700, Eric Cables wrote:
> 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.

There is no option for this, but you could either bind BIRD instances to
a different port or to a different IP (listen option). If you bind BIRD
to a different port, you don't need to configure neighbors - outgoing
connections will be still to tcp/179.

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Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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