[c-nsp] ME3800X/ME3600X/ME3600X-24CX/ASR903/ASR901 Deployment Simplification Feedback

[Mark Tinka]

On Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:56:52 PM Leigh Harrison wrote:

> I would also like to see more horsepower in the systems. 
> We recently went to implement multicasting in VRF and
> ran into some odd challenges.   We have the 3600's set
> up for routing and are about to push 24,000 IPv4 routes.
>   In our busier boxes we have around 9,000 routes, so
> I'm more than happy with the capacity there.  However,
> in order to turn on 250 MDT routes, we have to drop the
> IPv4 routes down to 12,000.  A sliding scale would be
> nice for memory allocation, but in the face of having
> 3600's move from 30% full to 60% full in the routing
> table to add in a new feature, we went for a redesign of
> how we delivered the multicasting.

A reasonable use-case for a larger FIB in this platform 
family :-).

Mark.
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