[c-nsp] Cat5000 and BGP

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Wed Nov 9 04:24:01 EST 2005


Hi,

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:27:13PM -0800, Lawrence Wong wrote:
> I understand that currently full feed BGP Cisco
> routers suffer from the "per minute BGP scanner CPU
> hog" symptom which translates to occasional high
> latency when pinging the router.
> 
> If the router is to run in MLS mode with the Cat5k,
> would this high latency symtom be elevated?

If you ping the router, latency will be high.  MLS will affect packets
that go *through* the router, not *to* the router.

gert

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