seemless configuration change

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Kurt Wauters <kuwauters at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I've got BIRD running for v4 and v6 but i was wondering if there is a way
> to switch between configurations without shutting down bird in order to
> avoid BGP flaps.
>
> I basically add regularly neighbors to the RS and i don't want my allready
> active bgp sessions to flap. Initially i thought I would be able to load
> the new configuration files but he complains that there is already a
> process running.
>
> Anyone an idea?

'birdc configure' reloads the configuration file...

-Toke