[j-nsp] PFE_NH_RESOLVE_THROTTLED Message

[Pekka Savola]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Barry O'Connell wrote:
> We are seeing a large volume of the follow message
> "PFE_NH_RESOLVE_THROTTLED: Next-hop resolution requests from interface
> 67 throttled" in the router logs.
>
> I am struggling to understand why this is happening. The explanation
> from juniper for this system message, shown below, is some what cryptic.
> What is throwing me off here is the mention of ARP whereas all of the
> interfaces being throttled are configured with /30 subnets and whilst
> they are Ethernet interfaces only provide connectivity to a single host.
> I would have expected the throttling to occur on an interface providing
> access to multiple hosts.
>
> Does anyone have any experience or opinion on this error message?

These also occur with multicast forwarding; we get them constantly. 
I haven't been able to figure out if there is anything we could do 
about them; for a couple of years that we've seen them, I've just 
filtered them out in syslogs.

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