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Re: "2M today, 10M with no change in technology"? An informal survey.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Gauthier)
Tue Aug 28 17:55:26 2007

Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:40:32 -0400
From: Eric Gauthier <eric@roxanne.org>
To: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3c3e3fca0708281211v7652998cgebc828ae9e45713d@mail.gmail.com>
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Bill,

[...]
> 2. Once the limit is reached, excess routes will fail over to software
> switching. TAC did not specify how routes are designated as excess.

I'm not sure if the Sup2's handle this case differently from the 
Sup720s we were using, but, in our case, when we reached the ceilign
the routes appeared in both the routing and CEF tables but were not 
populated into the FIB.  

Translation: the route was ignored....

Eric :)

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