[c-nsp] overruns on a gig-e circuit?

[Lasher, Donn]

Engine2 cards have some serious FIB hardware limitations:


Summary of Limitations:
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Recent ehancements to the ACL software have increased the memory required to
store the forwarding table on Engine 2 LCs. The extent of the limitation
depends on which ACL configuration is used. If ACL packet filters are not
configured on an interface, the input ACL limitation applies.

The 4 port OC12 POS, 1 port OC48 POS, and 3 port GigE LCs can support up to
448 lines of ACLs in hardware. The configuration of an input ACL on these
cards will result in a limitation of 171,000 routes. The configuration
of an output ACL on any interface in the router will result in a route
limit of 110,000 for these cards.

The 16 port OC3 POS and 4 port OC12 ATM LCs can support up to
128 lines of ACLs in hardware. The configuration of an input ACL on these
cards will result in a route limitation of 205,000 routes. The configuration
of an output ACL on any interface in the router will result in a route
limit of 190,000 for these cards.


With the current route table at well over 200k routes, engine2 cards run out
of memory and crash if used on a router with full BGP tables.




-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Drew Weaver
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 7:53 AM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] overruns on a gig-e circuit?

Hi,

I just replaced a link between two GSR 12000s using old engine 1 cards with
shiny new engine 2 cards.

The old Engine 1 cards didn't display any "overruns"

But the new engine 2 cards are displaying "overruns"

Example:

Router-A

186 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 186 overrun, 0 ignored

Router-B

236 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 236 overrun, 0 ignored

Granted, there are only "236" overruns per each 100million packets but
before we weren't seeing any,

Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks,
-Drew

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