[c-nsp] BGP memory on a 6500

[Rodney Dunn]

I'll pass that on as I agree with you.

Rodney

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:34:59AM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> 
> 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