[c-nsp] Catalyst 6509 - High CPU - Process ios-base

[Patrick J Greene]

Here's the actual bug ID related to this issue CSCdy72539.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis at lewis.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:22 PM
To: Patrick J Greene
Cc: Cisco Nsp
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Catalyst 6509 - High CPU - Process ios-base

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Patrick J Greene wrote:

> Nope...none.
>
> Well I opened a case with TAC and apparently it is a bug.  We have about
> 30 tunnel interfaces all using the same source interface.  TAC says to
> create a separate loopback interface as the source for each Tunnel to
> work around the bug.

That 'bug' has been mentioned on this list in the not so distant past.

I figured you were the first of the anticipated "what's happened to our
6509?" posts from people running out of TCAM starting to software switch
traffic for the routes not fitting in TCAM.  I guess I'll have to wait a
bit longer for that.

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