[c-nsp] BGP memory on a 6500

[Robert E. Seastrom]

Rodney Dunn <rodunn at cisco.com> writes:

> We are putting in a warning that will go to the syslog when the
> hw reaches 95% capacity to give a earlier warning.
>
> What we've found is most people just miss/ignore the warning when
> the problem happens because they didn't realize at the time reachability
> to those destinations could be totally broken. But then a lot of times
> the prefixes are covered under a less specific if the same forwarding
> next hop so on the surface everything "just works".

This is kind of a scary failure mode.  Perhaps something more
noticeable than just a syslog entry (something that's printed out
after the banner motd for instance) might be good.

                                        ---Rob