If there is a task to drop OSPF packets, should we use control plane host or
cef-exception sub-interface?

With regards
Kings

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Kingsley Charles <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> One of Control Plane Host subinterface's purpose is to control routing
> protocol packets incoming rate. EBGP directly connected peers and OSPF
> packets uses TTL of 1. Similarly all packets to 224.0.0.1 (all system
> multicast address) is sent with TTL with 1.
>
> Hence it seems these packets will go to CEF Exception sub-interface not to
> the Host Sub-interfaces. I observed OSPF falling into CEF Exception
> sub-interface.
>
> Just wondering why Cisco has decided to push packets of TTL = 1 to
> CEF-exception sub-interface.
>
> Snippet from
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/qos/configuration/guide/ctrl_plane_prot_ps6441_TSD_Products_Configuration_Guide_Chapter.html
>
> *Control-plane host subinterface*. This interface receives all
> control-plane IP traffic that is directly destined for one of the router
> interfaces. Examples of control-plane host IP traffic include tunnel
> termination traffic, management traffic or routing protocols such as SSH,
> SNMP, BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP. All host traffic terminates on and is
> processed by the router. Most control plane protection features and policies
> operate strictly on the control-plane host subinterface. Since most critical
> router control plane services, such as routing protocols and management
> traffic, is received on the control-plane host subinterface, it is critical
> to protect this traffic through policing and protection policies. CoPP,
> port-filtering and per-protocol queue thresholding protection features can
> be applied on the control-plane host subinterface.
>
>
> The control-plane host subinterface only supports TCP/UDP-based host
> traffic. All IP packets entering the control-plane matching any of the
> following conditions are not classified any further and are redirected to
> the cef-exception subinterface:
>
> •IP Packets with IP options.
>
> *•**IP Packets with TTL less than or equal to 1.*
>
>
> With regards
> Kings
>
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