[c-nsp] FIB scale on ASR9001

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:14:16AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
> I have read a lot of Cisco documentation on configuring ROV on IOS XE 
> and IOS XR, and unless something has been recently updated, this is not 
> one of the explicit recommendations in that documentation. I can see how 
> easy it is to overlook (or if you do have 'soft-reconfiguration inbound' 
> configured, how that significance can also be overlooked).

I've been extremely underwhelmed with the quality of IOS XR documentation
in many respects, ROV being one of them.

(And ROV on IOS XE is full of different eels... as if a totally different
company has implemented it, without ever speaking to someone who has 
done this before, or understand what it's supposed to do)

> All that notwithstanding, the move to 100Gbps peering/transit + faster 
> CPU's on the MX204 is still a worthy reason to move away from the 
> ASR9001, for us anyway :-).

Yeah, not argueing that decision, just curious about the problems you
saw.

We're moving towards Arista 7280R, which is not without its own set of
surprises...

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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