[c-nsp] NetFlow NDE Configurations for PFC/MSFC

Dale W. Carder dwcarder at doit.wisc.edu
Tue Feb 20 11:32:58 EST 2007


Thus spake Simon Leinen (simon at limmat.switch.ch) on Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:58:57PM +0100:
> 
> On the other hand, a 100% busy SP doesn't seem to cause as many
> problems as a 100% busy RP

Until spanning-tree needs to reconverge.

Seen it.  Not fun.  

You probably want at least 50% of your SP on reserve.  3550/3750
IOS has addressed prioritizing stp since we saw problems approx 2-3 
years ago, but I don't  know what an angry 6500 SP would do.  

Dale

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