[Xorp-cvs] XORP cvs commit: xorp/libxipc xorp
Mark Handley
M.Handley@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Sat, 04 Jun 2005 10:13:31 +0100
>Log message:
> * Add support to set the finder server address from the
> XORP_FINDER_SERVER_ADDRESS environmental variable.
> This variable in combination with the existing
> XORP_FINDER_CLIENT_ADDRESS can be used to run the XORP processes
> on different machines.
>
> * Rename the existing XORP_FINDER_CLIENT_PORT environmental variable
> to XORP_FINDER_SERVER_PORT (to reflect better its purpose).
> Note that we cannot set the client port, because it is automatically
> assigned/selected by the sockets.
I'm confused. Are you saying that to rib (say) bgp on a different
machine, I need to set XORP_FINDER_CLIENT_ADDRESS and
XORP_FINDER_SERVER_PORT to communicate with the remote finder? Surely
they should be consistent.
- Mark