[c-nsp] Best practice - Core vs Access Router

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Tue Feb 9 12:44:05 EST 2010


On 09/02/10 16:56, Andy B. wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Saku Ytti<saku at ytti.fi>  wrote:
>> My guess is that you are sporadically getting flood of glean punts which
>> are blocking your input buffers causing OSPF/BGP keepalives to be dropped.
>>
>
> Excuse me for being ignorant, but what are glean punts? Should I dig
> out my routing for dummies book :-/

Packets that need an ARP lookup before they are routed onwards, because 
the destination is a "connected" subnet but the destination IP isn't in 
the ARP table.

The destination needs to be "gleaned"



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