BIRD in Mininet

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Tue Apr 18 14:25:27 CEST 2017


Mario Cekic <mario.cekic at cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I tried to run BIRD in Mininet but it failed with the error "I found
> another BIRD running". The calls look something like this:
> /usr/lib/bird -c routerID.conf -P /tmp/routerID.pid > routerID.log
> 2>&1
>
> Does anyone know how to run multiple instances of BIRD in this manner
> within Mininet or is it possible at all?

Think you just need to set separate control sockets (-s parameter) for each
instance.

-Toke


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