[ixpmanager] upgrade bird1 to bird2

[Will Hargrave]

On 27 May 2021, at 16:46, Nick Hilliard (INEX) wrote:

>> We currently run BIRD1 with 2 deamons (1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6) and we want 
>> to upgrade to BIRD2. However BIRD2 has only one deamon but IXP 
>> Manager will still generate 2 separate configurations for IPv4 and 
>> IPv6. How do you combine them?
> The intent is that you run two separate daemons. If your ipv6 
> implementation runs into a bug and crashes, you probably don't want 
> ipv4 route server to disappear too.

I think there is also the advantage that they can run on separate CPUs 
in a multi-CPU system (as most are these days)

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Will Hargrave
Technical Director
LONAP Ltd