[c-nsp] Router memory problem

[Mark Tinka]

On 27/Oct/16 21:54, Justin Krejci wrote:

> We use prefix-lists (not ACL) in our route-maps, BGP filtering, etc but I am curious what is wrong with distribute-lists specifically.
> Is it just that they are old and less efficient CPU-wise or something? Are there known bugs in certain use cases?

They are slow, prone to mistakes due to the dependency on ACL's, scale
poorly, and are so legacy that you don't know if newer code will either
deprecate or break them.

It's kind of like using CAR when MQC is the way forward.

Mark.