[j-nsp] route BGP stall bug

[Daniel Roesen]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:22:26AM +0300, Saku Ytti wrote:
> I remember back in the JunOS4 days when Juniper was trying to enter the
> market, one of the first sales pitches I heard 'you know how GSR drops
> neighbours and stops forwarding when it runs out of memory?'

Which wasn't really correct. What happened was that the linecard ran out
of memory, and disabled CEF. Result: IGP adjacency remained up, but
traffic forwarding stopped. Instant blackholing.


Best regards,
Dan'first-hand report'iel

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