On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 03:20:33PM +0100, Neil Wilson wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way of turning off the socket listen for OSPF interfaces > marked as 'stub'? > > At the moment I'm running up against the 1024 open file limit on servers > (such as VM hosts) with lots of interfaces. > > I could alter the ulimit but it seems a bit of a waste to have all those > open sockets doing nothing. Could the code be altered to open the socket > if the interface is reconfigured away from being a stub, or is there > another reason for the listen being there on stub interfaces?
No, it is completely pointless. This is one thing i would like to fix soon. If you have a static list of IP/prefixes, one workaround is to activate OSPF just on non-stub interfaces/prefixes and add stub prefixes using 'stubnet' option. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: [email protected]) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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