[c-nsp] C3k: IPv6 multicast listener reports causes high CPU

Peter Rathlev peter at rathlev.dk
Thu Mar 6 06:58:00 EST 2014


On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 19:50 +0000, Phil Mayers wrote:
> I can't remember if c3k can do multicast storm limiting without bad side 
> effects; that is how we solved our problem. In particular if it is the 
> same thing (AMT/vPro) we found that even a modest rate-limit closed the 
> flood storms down completely, as they seem to be caused by "reflection".

A mild storm-control worked like a charm. We set the limit to 250 pps on
a random of the edge ports participating in the storm and it stopped
almost immediately.

-- 
Peter




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