[nsp] uRPF stability on 6500's
   
    Steve Francis
     
    steve@expertcity.com
       
    Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:20:15 -0800
    
    
  
Alex Rubenstein wrote:
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> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Steve Francis wrote:
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> >I've seen other posts of people not wanting to hit the 122,000 FIB limit
> >with uRPF enabled.  (We're at 116,000)
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> I was told by people at cisco, that when you hit the above, the system
> continues to forward. However, any entries outside of the 122k will be
> software switched.
I've been told that too.  I've also been told by cisco users that they 
experienced hard crashes on reaching the limit, and by the TAC engineer 
on my crash last night that "The crash might be due to the high number 
of CEF entries when uRPF is configured."