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Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Sep 20 17:16:16 2007

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:03:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Matt Liotta <mliotta@r337.com>
cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <46F2C18A.80007@r337.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Matt Liotta wrote:

> I was playing with a sup2 adding in extra routes to the point that it ran out 
> of memory. Unfortunately, it didn't just drop routes like I thought it would. 
> CEF disabled itself as well, which on a busy box would be a disaster.
>
> Is this what people expect will happen in a few months to people using sup2s? 
> Or am I missing something else?

That's not good.  What software version was it running?

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