On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 03:56:02PM -0700, e ninja wrote: > > *BGP scanner is a housekeeping maintenance activity by the main system > processor. As such, its 'impact' on the 'system' should continue to diminish > as more platforms become modular (distributed architecture) and/or switch > packets in hardware. *
Actually no, bgp scanner has nothing to do with platform architecture of packet forwarding of any kind (hardware or otherwise). It is an entirely software mechanism which periodically walks the entire bgp table and does things like verify next-hop reachability. Distributing the operations that it performs so that they happen when a prefix or next-hop changes is a much better way to handle things (improves convergence and reduces the periodic cpu spikes), but you'll probably never see it go away completely. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC) _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
