[c-nsp] Making SUP720 cope better under BGP load

[Randy]

On 12/07/2012 7:36 am, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm currently using SUP720-3BXL's in my BGP border devices.  
> Obviously the
> SUP720 is not a particularly fast CPU, so it is pretty slow at 
> bringing up a
> lot of BGP sessions.

Have you considered a CoPP policy to limit the rate of BGP convergence? 
Not sure if it would help with so many peers but it might lessen the 
pain on your 3 full tables.

-- 
Randy