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

Jon Lewis jlewis at lewis.org
Thu Sep 20 21:03:41 UTC 2007


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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