[c-nsp] BGP memory on a 6500

[Rodney Dunn]

I could never get them to agree to do it before and I have no reason
to believe anything has changed.

Rodney


On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:21:19PM +0100, Oliver Dewdney wrote:
> Or implement aggregation when filling the TCAM, so the problem goes away?
> 
> Oli Dewdney
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert E. Seastrom [mailto:rs at seastrom.com] 
> Sent: 03 October 2006 12:35
> To: Rodney Dunn
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] BGP memory on a 6500
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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