[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."