From: Church, Chuck (cchurch@wamnetgov.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 17:45:50 GMT-3
I think using 'soft in reconfig' causes almost a doubling in memory usage. Disabling that alone should help a ton, and cause no change in service or functionality.
Chuck Church
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Pace [mailto:anthonypace@fastmail.fm]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:30 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: BGP using to much of memory???
>
>
> I am multi-holmed to 2 ISP's and have a router connected to each. Each
> router peers with it's respective ISP (EBGP)and the 2 peer with each
> other (IBGP). It was the desire of this entity to "not waste the
> redundant bandwidth", so address space is announced to both
> ISP's with no
> prepend. This has the effect of some degree of "load sharing"; but the
> routers are 3640's with all the memory that will fit in them
> and memory
> utilization is over 90%. These are my solutions, does anyone think I
> am/am not on the right track?
>
> 1. Do nothing. 90% memory utilization is fine.
>
> 2. Stop doing soft inbound reconfiguration thereby
> eliminating that extra
> "unfiltered" table in memory.
>
> 3. Begin getting "partial routes" from each ISP. His customers and his
> customers customers (or something like that)
>
> 4. Pick one Primary for INGRESS and EGRESS traffic and prefer
> the default
> from him, and only use the secondary in case I no longer receive the
> primaries default.
>
> Anthony Pace CCIE 10349
>
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