[c-nsp] BGP enhancemens coming to 12.2S?

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Thomas Kernen <mailto:thomas at ip-man.net> wrote on Thursday, June 09,
2005 9:04 AM:

>>> does anybody know (more precise: is permitted to speak about) a
>>> timeline when some of the really useful BGP enhancements from 12.0S
>>> will appear in 12.2S? 
>>> 
>>> Namely:
>>> 
>>>   - removal of the BGP scanner CPU hog
>> 
>> Not sure what you are referring to, but the BGP next-hop tracker
>> which uses an event-driven mechanism to track next-hop changes, is
>> planned for 12.2(7th)S (can't give a timeline yet).
>> Note: This will NOT remove the BGP scanner. It continues to be
>> there, it continues to use up CPU cycles if it can (it is a low-prio
>> process), we just don't need to wait for the periodic scanner to
>> process next-hop changes/removal. 
>> 
> 
> I think Gert is refering to the following feature in the 12.0S train
> which I would also like to see ported to the 12.2S train
> "BGP Support for Next-Hop Address Tracking" which you mentioned in
> your email to the list on March 14th and would remove some of the
burden
> related to the BGP scanner and the 60secs CPU peaks.

This is exactly the feature I was talking about above..

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