[c-nsp] Sup1A/MSFC2 - Prefix or flow based routing?

[Jared Mauch]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:46:17AM -0500, lee.e.rian at census.gov wrote:
> Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists at spacething.org> wrote on 11/23/2006
> 06:32:41 AM:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anybody know what the routing characteristics of this combo is? I
> > know that Sup1A/MSFC1 = flow based, and Sup2/MSFC2 = prefix based, but I
> > don't know what Sup1A/MSFC2 is.
> >
> > I suspect it's flow based, since the Sup is actually handling the MLS
> > switching side of things, but I haven't seen anything that says for
> certain.
> 
> I'd guess flow based just because it is a Sup1A.  And doing a "sh mls l3
> stat" on the sup still lists shortcuts, candidate hits & failed to create
> shortcut counters just like a sup1a/msfc1.

	yup, to optimize forwarding performance you want to
configure

	mls flow ip destination


here's some timers i've used in the past as well:

mls aging fast time 30 threshold 128
mls aging long 600



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