BGP Listen Port

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 12:28:23AM +0000, Joshua McQuistan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> From BIRD 2.0.0 I can see that the "listen bgp" command has been replaced
> with "strict bind". However this means that BIRD can no longer listen on a
> specific port.
> 
> This is something I am using with 1.6.3 to operate separate BGP instances.
> For example on a server with a main instance I can test on a different port
> or on a switch where I don't want to replace the vendor's instance.
> 
> Is this something that will return? Or have I missed something painfully
> obvious?

Hello

We updated 'local' option so it can contain port, like 'remote' option.
But forgot to add it to documentation. It should be:

local [<ip>] [port <number>] [as <number>]

Different BGP instances now could use separate ports even in one BIRD process.

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