[j-nsp] PFE_NH_RESOLVE_THROTTLED Message

[Niels Bakker]

* pekkas at netcore.fi (Pekka Savola) [Mon 20 Aug 2007, 11:29 CEST]:
>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.

Exact same story here.


	-- Niels.

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