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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I saw a discussion on running multiple instances/processes of the same protocol within the same host machine.</font></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">But I was interested in running multiple instances of the same protocols within the same processes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Like within OSPFv2 process, I would want to run 50 ospfv2 routing engines.</font></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">They should be just interdependent instances and don't need to know each other and only learn about each other through the normal protocols interactions. The reason is that I want to emulate a network instead of just a distributed router. If I'm trying to run 50 or even few hundreds processes on my system, it won't be the desired operations.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I know that it is not the model that is currently supported, but I want to get some directions as where/how to start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Just reading the design documents, the first thing that I see the issue is the XLR target. From what I can tell, a target is associated wit the process, in order words, I cannot address a particular instance within the process.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Beside that from the OSPF or any protocol implementation point of view, would there is any issue as well?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Any thoughts/suggestions/pointers will be appreciated.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">RT</font></p></div>