[j-nsp] Upgrade from M10i?

Alexandre Snarskii snar at snar.spb.ru
Sun Mar 15 09:10:01 EDT 2009


On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:10:04PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 05:05:52PM +0300, Alexandre Snarskii wrote:
> > That is not an rlimit, that is MAXDSIZ parameter of JUNIPER-EX kernel 
> > configuration. And while it hardcoded to kernel, it can be tweaked 
> > with the help of loader.conf. 
> > 
> > While this hack works, it has at least one major drawback: loader.conf 
> > is rewritten during JunOS upgrade, so, I'd prefer not to use it on
> > production networks.. 
> 
> Actually it looks like Juniper has further crippled things in rpd now. I 
> just tested this on 9.4R1 and there is now a hard-coded max-prefix which 
> doesn't seem to be turned off by any of the usual prefix-limit 
> configurations:
> 
> rpd[755]: %DAEMON-3-RPD_RT_PREFIX_LIMIT_REACHED: Number of prefixes 
> (12288) in table inet.0 still exceeds or equals configured maximum (12288)
> rpd[755]: %DAEMON-3-RPD_RT_PREFIX_LIMIT_REACHED: Number of prefixes (1024) 
> in table inet6.0 still exceeds or equals configured maximum (1024)

Looks like you have reached routing-options maximum-prefixes safe
default. And it is configurable too :)  
Not able to reproduce it now, but when I had ex-switch in my lab, 
I was able to get ~220k prefixes into RIB with JunOS 9.4R1. 



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