[c-nsp] CEF Scanner eating CPU in Supervisor 720

[Saku Ytti]

On (2006-06-24 04:08 -0400), Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
 
> Not sure if the number is quite that low, but sure you can easily exhaust 
> the Juniper exception processor CPU and make it generate laggy icmp 
> responses (just turn on firewall logging of a few thousand packets/sec). 
> But, given reasonable settings that is a rare event in production, as 
> opposed to the Cisco "guaranteed to return bad data for several seconds 
> out of every every 60 seconds like clockwork" whenever bgp scanner runs.

In 10GE networks it's not so rare anymore :(. But then again, I'd 
be surprised if in the future the limit wouldn't be configurable,
as it's in CSCO.

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