[c-nsp] Cat5000 and BGP

[Lawrence Wong]

--- Alex Rubenstein <alex at nac.net> 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.
> 
> Yes. So?
> 
> > If the router is to run in MLS mode with the
> Cat5k, would this high 
> > latency symtom be elevated?
> 
> Above, you say "... pinging the router ..."
> 
> This latency situation doesn't happen when pinging
> 'through' the router, 
> so, in effect, it is entirely cosmetic.

Quite true. What I'm more concerned about is how non
savvy end users may perceive it as a congested link or
overloaded router when they do a traceroute and notice
"high latency" on hops through the router. :(


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