So Philip Smith / Geoff Huston's CIDR report becomes worth a good hard look today

Tue Aug 12 18:02:47 UTC 2014

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

Many don't need to buy anything new.  Just follow the instructions here:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-6500-series-switche$
We did this in the 1st week of June.  Problem solved.

-Hank

> 512K routes, here we come.  Lots of TCAM based routers suddenly become
> really expensive doorstops.
>
> Maybe time to revisit this old 2007 nanog thread?
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_view_flat;post=99870;page=1;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25;list=nanog
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> FYI nanog -   https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2014-August/007091.html
>
> [outages] Major outages today, not much info at this time
>
> Teun Vink teun at teun.tv
> Tue Aug 12 11:42:05 EDT 2014
>
> On di, 2014-08-12 at 15:20 +0000, Hoyle Anderson (AM) via Outages wrote:
>> I know this isn’t much help, but there are major problems with
>> multiple ISPs since around 4-5 AM EST.  I really don’t have much
>> detail, but I have sites that are unreachable from some providers.
>> Looks like Comcast, level3, ATT, cogent, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> So, it’s probably not just you, but I’m afraid I don’t know who it is.
>> I heard one report of a datacenter outage.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Some routing tables hit 512K routes today. Some old hardware and
> software can't handle that and either crash or ignore newly learned
> routes. So this may cause some disturbances in the force.
>
> HTH,
> Teun
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