[nsp] intermitten ping lags on 7500/rsp4/256M

[Jared Mauch]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:58:57AM +1000, Dmitri Kalintsev wrote:
> You can't "fix" it. ICMP handler is low-priority process in IOS. These
> "delays" are only evident when you try to get ICMP replies from the router
> itself, but they do not affect the transit traffic.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:41:23PM -0400, lexus wrote:
> > Chris,
> > 
> > How did you fix yours?
> > 
> > What IOS image are you running?  I am willing to try anything =)
> > 
> > Thanks
> > -ken
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:43 PM
> > To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: RE: [nsp] intermitten ping lags on 7500/rsp4/256M
> > 
> > At 02:15 PM 6/12/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Ive seen the same thing.  If you get on the 7500 and do a..
> > >
> > >Router# sho proc cpu | excl 0.00%
> > >
> > >You will probably see BGP updates jumping in when you hit that 600ms
> > >ping.  At least that is my experience.  How to fix it (if you consider
> > >this broken) is a very good question :)  I'm open to answers.
> > >
> > >-Scotty
> > 
> > 
> > Ditto here, it's caused by BGP on my 7507.

	What you need is the distributed linecards to inspect packets
prior to being forwarded to the RE and be able to generate the icmp
responses at linerate back.  Obviously non-distributed
platforms (3640, 2600, 2500, 7200, or even 7500 w/ older non-dcef
capable cards) will not be able to respond in this fashion, but they
are more likely to not be performing bgp.

	This doesn't seem like a too complicated thing to do.

	- jared

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