[f-nsp] Max BGP peers BigIron RX4
Ryan Harden
hardenrm at uiuc.edu
Tue Feb 22 09:54:11 EST 2011
I would certainly hope you wouldn't need a second MR2 as I believe they
are to be fully redundant. Same goes with SFMs. The third is a spare (At
least in the MLX/XMR line.)
/Ryan
On 02/22/2011 08:47 AM, Pieter Taks wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
>
> Could it bet hat I need 2x MR2 or perhaps 3x SFM1?
>
> sh module
> ==========================================================================
> *** BigIron RX-4 CHASSIS ***
>
> Module Status Ports Starting MAC
> M1 (left): RX-BI-MR2 Management Module (High Value) Active
> M2 (right):
> F1: RX-BI-SFM1 Switch Fabric Module OK
> F2: RX-BI-SFM1 Switch Fabric Module OK
> F3: RX-BI-SFM1 Switch Fabric Module not present
> S1: RX-BI-4XG 4-port 10GbE Module CARD_STATE_UP 4 000c.dbf5.1200
> S2:
> S3: RX-BI-2XG 2-port 10GbE Module CARD_STATE_UP 2 000c.dbf5.1200
> S4: RX-BI-2XG 2-port 10GbE Module CARD_STATE_UP 2 000c.dbf5.1200
> ==========================================================================
>
> Thank you for trying to help Ryan, perhaps it is a quick fix after all and I just overlooked the fact I need two MR2's or some other setting.
>
> Pieter Taks
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Ryan Harden [mailto:hardenrm at illinois.edu]
> Verzonden: dinsdag 22 februari 2011 15:44
> Aan: Pieter Taks
> CC: hardenrm at uiuc.edu
> Onderwerp: Re: [f-nsp] Max BGP peers BigIron RX4
>
> Hmm. Are you certain you have an M2 management module?
>
> I don't have any RX's here to check against. We have many other flavors of Foundry/Brocade but none with anywhere near 250+ BGP peers.
>
> I would suspect 'session limit' is more for traffic sessions than BGP sessions.
>
> Sorry I couldn't help. I've found over the years that many never think to look or didn't know about 'sh def val' and had no idea that 'max capable' didn't mean 'max configured'. I was hoping it would be a quick fix. :)
>
> /Ryan
>
> On 02/22/2011 08:38 AM, Pieter Taks wrote:
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> Thank you for replying so quickly.
>> I do not see any such value, as I thought of that as well. I am most likely really overlooking it (I hope).
>> Could it be the max session limit perhaps?
>>
>> sh def values
>> sys log buffers:50 mac age time:300 sec telnet sessions:5
>>
>> ip arp age:10 min bootp relay max hops:4 ip ttl:64 hops
>> ip addr per intf:24
>>
>> when multicast enabled :
>> igmp group memb.:140 sec igmp query:60 sec
>>
>> when ospf enabled :
>> ospf dead:40 sec ospf hello:10 sec ospf retrans:5 sec
>> ospf transit delay:1 sec
>>
>> when bgp enabled :
>> bgp local pref.:100 bgp keep alive:60 sec bgp hold:180 sec
>> bgp metric:10 bgp local as:1 bgp cluster id:0
>> bgp ext. distance:20 bgp int. distance:200 bgp local distance:200
>>
>> when IS-IS enabled :
>> isis hello interval:10 sec isis hello multiplier:3
>> isis port metric:10 isis priority:64
>> isis csnp-interval:10 sec isis default-metric:10
>> isis distance:115 isis lsp-gen-interval:10 sec
>> isis lsp-interval:33 msec isis lsp-refresh-interval:900 sec
>> isis max-lsp-lifetime:1200 sec isis maximum-paths:4
>> isis retransmit-interval:5 sec isis spf-interval:5 sec
>>
>> System Parameters Default Maximum Current
>> mac 32768 65536 65536
>> vlan 512 4095 4095
>> spanning-tree 32 128 32
>> rstp 32 128 128
>> ip-arp 8192 65536 65536
>> ip-static-arp 2048 16384 2048
>> multicast-route 8192 153600 8192
>> dvmrp-route 2048 16384 2048
>> dvmrp-mcache 4096 4096 4096
>> pim-mcache 4096 4096 4096
>> igmp-max-group-addr 1024 4096 1024
>> ip-cache 204800 524288 524288
>> ip-route 204800 524288 524288
>> ip-subnet-port 24 128 24
>> virtual-interface 255 4095 4095
>> session-limit 32768 163840 32768
>> ip-filter-sys 4096 8192 4096
>> mgmt-port-acl-size 20 100 20
>> l2-acl-table-entries 64 256 64
>> vlan-multicast-flood 0 4095 0
>> ipv6-cache 65536 65536 65536
>> ipv6-route 65536 65536 65536
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Pieter Taks
>> NFOrce Entertainment BV
>>
>> Tel. +31 20 6919299
>> Fax. +31 20 6919409
>>
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: Ryan Harden [mailto:hardenrm at uiuc.edu]
>> Verzonden: dinsdag 22 februari 2011 15:36
>> Aan: Pieter Taks
>> CC: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
>> Onderwerp: Re: [f-nsp] Max BGP peers BigIron RX4
>>
>> Do a 'sh def val'.
>>
>> My guess is you need to set the 'system-max' for max BGP peers.
>>
>> /Ryan
>>
>> On 02/22/2011 08:23 AM, Pieter Taks wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> While configuring a new peer on an BigIron RX4 we got the following error:
>>>
>>> /Error! BGP4 cannot allocate memory for peer 253/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A PDF claims the following
>>> (http://www.terabitsystems.com/foundry-docs/Foundry-BigIron-RX-Series-Datasheet.pdf):
>>>
>>> /BGPv4: //Scalable to 4 million routes, 500 peers and 14,000
>>> attributes with MR2 management module/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there any reason why it wouldn't want to configure more peering sessions?
>>>
>>> - I do not see any system-max setting for this
>>>
>>> - As well as I do not see any full memory yet
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope someone knows how to resolve this or what is causing this error.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> sh memory
>>>
>>> ====================================================================
>>>
>>> BigIron RX active MP slot 33:
>>>
>>> Total SDRAM: 2147483648 bytes
>>>
>>> Available Memory: 1646874624 bytes
>>>
>>> Free Physical Pages: 401374 pages
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Malloc statistics: total 500462813
>>>
>>> os_malloc count: 24059060, fail: 3; os_free count: 24046183, fail 0,
>>> diff: 12877
>>>
>>> ====================================================================
>>>
>>> BigIron RX LP SL 1:
>>>
>>> Total SDRAM: 536870912 bytes
>>>
>>> Available Memory: 53039104 bytes
>>>
>>> ====================================================================
>>>
>>> BigIron RX LP SL 3:
>>>
>>> Total SDRAM: 536870912 bytes
>>>
>>> Available Memory: 72671232 bytes
>>>
>>> ====================================================================
>>>
>>> BigIron RX LP SL 4:
>>>
>>> Total SDRAM: 536870912 bytes
>>>
>>> Available Memory: 72654848 bytes
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated, thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Pieter Taks
>>>
>>>
>>>
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