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


From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:03:41 -0400 (EDT)


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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