[26780] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CEF Load balancing...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesper Skriver)
Sun Jan 16 08:53:41 2000
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:51:50 +0100
From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To: Mark Prior <mrp@connect.com.au>
Cc: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@virgin.relcom.eu.net>,
William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <200001161155.WAA12275@kuji.off.connect.com.au>; from mrp@connect.com.au on Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 10:25:37PM +1030
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 10:25:37PM +1030, Mark Prior wrote:
>
> It's almost safe to use it, if you can turn off features which cause troubles.
> CEF is not trouble-making feature except some configurations.
>
> Except when the router decides to turn CEF off all by itself due to
> malloc failure.
That sounds like a memory leak, have you tried the latest versions ? in
12.0(x)S there was a catastrophic memory leak in 12.0(7)S related to cef
...
/Jesper
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