[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
>>
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>>
>>
>> -----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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> 

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