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

Tue Aug 12 18:42:56 UTC 2014

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-6500-series-switches/117712-problemsolution-cat6500-00.html

-Hank

> 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
>>
>>  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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