[c-nsp] Dreaded FIB Exception on Sup2

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Thu Sep 4 09:25:33 EDT 2008


* Rich Davies:

> Has anyone ever utilized Unicast RPF (reverse path forwarding) to help
> mitigate this limitation on the SUP2's?   I have also ran into the same
> limitation with our SUP2's (full BGP routing table, multiple peering
> sessions) and I have read that enabling Unicast RPF would help temporarily
> alleviate the TCAM memory being exhausted

On a MSFC2/PFC2, enabling uRPF cuts the number of available routes in
half, so it makes things only worse.  Don't know about more modern
MSFCs, sorry.

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