[j-nsp] syslog rsmon jtree problem
Juniper Iber-x
juniper at iber-x.com
Thu Mar 5 12:38:25 EST 2009
Jeff S Wheeler wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 12:58 +0100, Juniper Iber-x wrote:
>
>> Hellos,
>>
>> This is what command showing:
>>
>> IPv4 Route Tables:
>> Index Routes Size(b)
>> -------- ---------- ----------
>> Default 275509 19548772
>> 1 6 422
>> 2 275455 19544884
>>
>
> See, you have two full routing tables. One is the "Default" table,
> which is called inet.0, and you can see it has 275,509 routes. You also
> have a logical router, with its own inet.0 table (presumably that's what
> it is called) which has 275,455 routes.
>
> This is very bad. Some routes are not being installed into hardware.
> You may not notice a serious issue yet, especially if you have default
> routes configured in those tables; but which routes fail to be installed
> are not within your control. Eventually, it will be a customer route,
> and instead of traffic being safely defaulted to one of your transit
> providers, it will ... be defaulted to transit ... instead of going to
> the customer. And the problem will get worse, because the routing table
> grows every day. This is why your configuration worked fine when it was
> initially setup, but as the routing table grew, you ran out of SSRAM.
>
> You have the following choices to fix the problem:
> 1) upgrade your router to SSB-E-16, which has more SSRAM
> 2) stop carrying full routes in both of those tables
> 3) use a default route + forwarding-table export policy to reduce the
> number of routes required in hardware while still forwarding correctly.
>
> Let me know if you need some per-hour help. I have been doing #3 for
> about five years on purpose to allow my clients to do some interesting
> things with their networks. That will definitely be cheaper than #1.
> Or if you don't need full routes in that logical-router, then just get
> rid of them.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
But is very strange because we have another very similar topology and
this error doesn't show there.
The router where the error is showing doesn't run full-routing on its
logical-router...
It's possible to eliminate the logical-router.
Would that solve the problem?
Thanks in advance
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