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Re: Dual Homed BGP for failover


From: Jack Carrozzo <jack () crepinc com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:03:04 -0500

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net> wrote:

You should still be careful, as most processors keep a copy of filtered
routes as well, so while your forwarding table may not increase, your route
processor memory most likely will.


I don't think this is the case, on IOS at least. Some years ago I was
rocking some 7500s with $not_enough ram for multiple full tables, but with a
prefix list to accept le 23  they worked fine.

 -Jack Carrozzo


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