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Re: Getting pretty close to default IPv4 route maximum for 6500/7600 routers.


From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:07:22 -0500

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi> wrote:
On (2014-06-10 12:39 -0500), Blake Hudson wrote:
There is nothing to summarize away from global BGP table, if you have number
showing less, it's probably counter bug or misinterpretation.
Global BGP table, single BGP feed, will take same amount of RIB and FIB.
[snip]

That depends....  if by  "summarize"   they mean filter prefixes
longer than say  /22,  or otherwise...:  discard  extraneous prefixes
from networks that were allocated a /16   network but chose to
deaggregate and advertise every /24  ------   choosing to accept only
the /16 advertisement  instead of installing these extra /24 routes in
the FIB,   then there are plenty of entries to "summarize" away.


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-JH


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