[c-nsp] %FIB-3-NOMEM: Malloc Failure, disabling CEF

[Jon Lewis]

I got paged this morning because one of our routers did this (apparently 
due to either a memory leak, fragmentation, or both).  Since the router 
in question does tag-switching to support MPLS VPNs, the result of 
automatically disabling CEF was pretty undesirable.  I don't suppose 
there's a config command that would tell the router to do something else 
(like reboot) when usable memory has been exhausted?

I suspect this is something many with NPE300's and lower can look forward 
to in the coming months / year or two.

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