[nsp] BVI and CEF together

Siva Valliappan svalliap@cisco.com
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:36:20 -0800 (PST)


however there is no DCEF support for IRB.  :(

cheers
.siva

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Josh Duffek wrote:

> CEF support for BVIs didn't start until CSCdm66218 was added, with and after
> the following versions:
> 12.2(02)B 12.2(03.04)B 12.2(03.04)PB 12.2(03.03)S 12.2(02)T01 12.2(02.04)T
> 012.002(002.004)
>
> Josh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Atkinson" <Adam.Atkinson@damovo.com>
> To: <cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 7:17 AM
> Subject: [nsp] BVI and CEF together
>
>
> > Cisco bug CSCdw86718 seems to suggest that CEF shouldn't be used
> > on a BVI. Even though the status of the bug is "unreproducible" it
> > appears to affect all known IOS versions.
> >
> > I'm trying to do dcef per-packet load sharing across a BVI and another
> > interface.
> >
> > per-packet via process switching isn't an option as the BVI includes
> > gigabit and fast ethernet interfaces, and this would kill the CPU.
> >
> > This is on a 7500 with RSP8 and IOS 12.1(6a).
> >
> > CEF seems to be a right royal pain in general: even with identical
> > cost routes, and identical cef adjacencies, all the traffic goes
> > one way. People have advised turning cef off and on again and such like,
> > and I'm doing everything CCO says to do. Do I have to sacrifice goats
> > at this point?
> >
> > --
> > Adam Atkinson, Damovo
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> > m +44 7810 852439
> >
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