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Re: Netflow on SUP720-3BXL


From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:00:43 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Andy Bierlair wrote:

Im trying to run netflow on one of our Cisco core routers (SUP720-3BXL),
but I think I am hitting some limitations because of this:

%EARL_NETFLOW-SP-4-TCAM_THRLD: Netflow TCAM threshold exceeded, TCAM
Utilization [99%]

TCAM Utilization             :   100%

Aggregated traffic: 7-8 GBIT/s

Packets per Second: 1.0 - 1.2 Million

AFAIK, at that traffic level, you will have to do sampled netflow.  Try
mls sampling time-based 64 [in global]
mls netflow sampling [in interface]

and see if that stops your TCAM utilization issues. You may have to sample even less flow data.


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