GSRs and growing bgp tables WAS:AW: [c-nsp] Growing BGP tables

[Michael Lyngbøl]

On 22.11.2004 20:16:01 +0000, Michael Lyngbøl wrote:
> On 22.11.2004 19:51:57 +0000, Gunther Stammwitz wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Early GRP cards have a 256M limit, mostly A's but some B's 
> > > also we've found. The good news is that the PRP-2 seems to 
> > > work as a direct replacement with 12.0-27.S3 without any 
> > > issues [at least in our env].
> > 
> > I have a gsr8/40 with an ordinary GRP (the fist version / a-version) that
> > has only 256Megs of ram and runs 3 full views. currently there are 27479020b
> > free so I can hold about 200.000 routes I'd expect. Soft-reconfiguration is
> > disabled of course since this would cost about 10 to 15 MB Ram.
> > 
> > The limit might be my ge-gbic-sc-b card since it has only 128MB route
> > memory.
> >   FRU:  Linecard/Module: GE-GBIC-SC-B=
> >         Route Memory: MEM-GRP/LC-128=
> >         Packet Memory: MEM-LC1-PKT-512= 
> > On the linecard itself there are 10759088 bytes free so that's 10 MB and so
> > I'm going hit the limit sooner or later. Argh.
> 
> Well, I've seen 1p GigE cards (eng1) w/ 128MB run with 450k free memory
> ;-) but I wouldn't recommend that.
> 
> > I'm currently looking for another Cisco.
> > What would you say: GRP with 256MB or GRP-B with 512MB?
> 
> GRP is slow. Get a GRP-B w/ at least 1GB. We deploy GRP-B's w/ 2GB of
> RAM. GSR with full views:

Doh!. This is of-course the PRP-2. The GRP-B (and -A) has a max of 512MB. Sorry.

/Michael

>                Head     Total(b)     Used(b)     Free(b)   Lowest(b)  Largest(b)
> Processor    3F9F5A0   1994787424   254222112   1740565312   1731575164 1727003064