[outages] So what is broken

Paul Ferguson fergdawgster at mykolab.com
Wed Aug 13 18:58:26 EDT 2014


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I noticed that Cisco published this blog entry today:

http://blogs.cisco.com/sp/global-internet-routing-table-reaches-512k-milestone/

FYI,

- - ferg

On 8/13/2014 3:21 PM, Adam Kaminski via Outages wrote:

> The sup2t-xl for the 6500 series should not affected by this. The
> 1M TCAM space is shared and not default configured for 512k.
> 
> On August 12, 2014 at 6:32:27 PM, Bill Wichers via Outages 
> (outages at outages.org <mailto:outages at outages.org>) wrote:
> 
>> That's a tcam limit on the 6500/7600 platform. It's not
>> upgradable, but it is configurable.
>> 
>> The gsr platform doesn't have a hard limit like this, its just
>> memory (And is upgradeable), but most with that gear will have
>> already had to upgrade well before now.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:14 PM, "Geoffrey Mina via Outages" 
>> <outages at outages.org <mailto:outages at outages.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Cisco gear can't support more than 512K routes... We hit that
>>> or close to that at around 4am EDT today.
>>> 
>>> ISPs are scrambling to update memory in their routers.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -------- Original message -------- From: Michael Peterman via
>>> Outages Date:08/12/2014 1:00 PM (GMT-07:00) To:
>>> outages at outages.org <mailto:outages at outages.org> Subject:
>>> [outages] So what is broken
>>> 
>>> So is this issue all related to a fiber cut or a DC/Peering
>>> point having issues?
>>> 
>>> http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/liquidweb-among-companies-affected-major-outage-across-us-network-providers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 
Michael  Peterman
>>> 
>>> 



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