RE: [nsp] CEF, BGP tables and memory

From: Barry Raveendran Greene (bgreene@cisco.com)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2001 - 16:14:38 EST


Nope on soft-reconfig. Using route refresh.

Yes on the dampening.

Although I'm not running a IGP (the box is on the edge of a network). So
that might be a factor.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Mauch [mailto:jared@puck.nether.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 12:42 PM
> To: Barry Raveendran Greene
> Cc: Miguel A.L. Paraz; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] CEF, BGP tables and memory
>
>
> Barry,
>
> Do you have dampening or soft-reconfiguration enabled on
> any of these peers?
>
> - jared
>
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 12:26:50PM -0800, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote:
> >
> > Hi Miguel,
> >
> > I'm running CEF on several 7206s with 128MB with a few BGP views. In the
> > vast majority of cases, BGP's RIB will only send the single
> best path to the
> > FIB (used in CEF). So the entire BGP table is not copies to CEF.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Miguel A.L. Paraz [mailto:map@internet.org.ph]
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 8:09 AM
> > > To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> > > Subject: [nsp] CEF, BGP tables and memory
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > 128 MB RAM on my 7206 NPE-200 isn't enough to run CEF it
> seems, with two
> > > full BGP views. I don't think I need CEF for performance,
> but I do want
> > > CEF for uRPF.
> > >
> > > When you turn on "ip cef", I believe that copies the entire BGP
> > > table to CEF?
> > > I only need the customer static routes to copied to CEF, is
> that possible
> > > on 12.0.14(S) ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
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