RE: [nsp] CEF, BGP tables and memory

From: Barry Raveendran Greene (bgreene@cisco.com)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2001 - 15:26:50 EST


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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