SV: BGP peering strategies for smaller routers

Tue May 3 19:50:29 UTC 2016

Hello all.

Yes I can confirm that we also had the issue with the asr1001s. 
For us the router was fine until we upgraded it. When we rebooted it after the upgrade it ran out of memory when populating 2 full feeds. 
When we contacted TAC they confirmed that indeed it was a memory problem and that we would need to add more memory to the box. 
Perhaps 1002 isnt as thirsty? 

//Gustav

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Skickat: den 3 maj 2016 18:13
Till: Eric Sabotta <esabotta at whdh.com>
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Ämne: Re: BGP peering strategies for smaller routers

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:35 PM, Eric Sabotta <esabotta at whdh.com> wrote:
> I just did this with a ASR1001.  I had to upgrade it to 8gb of ram (I 
> got the real Cisco stuff for ~ $500).  Before the router would crash 
> when loading the tables.

Hi Eric,

Something very fishy there because:

> router1#show ip bgp summary
> BGP using 296,835,018 total bytes of memory

Commas added for clarity.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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