[c-nsp] 6500 iBGP mesh

Bruce Pinsky bep at whack.org
Mon Aug 14 05:05:34 EDT 2006


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Francois Corthésy wrote:
> Might I point out that it seems the Sup32/Sup720 line (except for the
> Sup720-3BXL) have a limitation based on their forwarding chip to about
> 239K routes.
> I'm no guru, but this was pointed out in a thread earlier on and sadly
> confirmed through a Cisco TAC.
> Earlier discussion :
> https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/2006-August/032814.html
> 

That's 239K routes in the RIB/FIB due to TCAM limitations.  There are only
~190K routes currently in the DFZ and having multiple views/paths for those
routes is only affected by the amount of memory (DRAM) installed, not the
TCAM limitations.

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