Run BIRD without binding to a local TCP socket?

[Eric Cables]

Yes, this can work, and will achieve my stated goal. My stated goal,
however, does not tell the whole story...

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?

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.

Thoughts?


-- Eric Cables


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org>wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
>
> Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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> "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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