clear forwarding route
Joe Abley
jabley at hopcount.ca
Fri Oct 18 16:42:12 UTC 2013
On 2013-10-18, at 11:40, Manav Bhatia <manavbhatia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like understand the circumstances under which an operator may want
> to clear all (or a subset of) the routes programmed in the forwarding table
> (FIB).
Because of bugs which have led to the FIB containing data that doesn't match the RIB, and which is causing customer enragement. They don't call it CEF for nothing.
> I believe the command to do this on Cisco is
>
> clear forwarding {ipv4 | ipv6} route {* | prefix} [vrf vrf-name] module
> {slot| all}
Cool. Back when I was chasing packets at 6461 the best we could do was
router(config)# interface blah
router(config-if)# shutdown
router(config-if)# no shutdown
> I ask this since doing this would result in the router dropping all transit
> traffic till the routes get reprogrammed in the FIB.
Seems likely!
> Why would somebody ever want to do this?
Screaming customer on the phone.
Joe
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