> James Bensley
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 5:55 PM
>
> Hi All,
>
> Reviving this old thread, is anyone running a hierarchical FIB on a 7600, how
> is
> it working for you? Has it halved your PPS rate for
> VPNv4/VPNv6 traffic due to recirculation?
>
Sorry can't comment on this
> PIC Edge is “working” in that backup prefixes are installed into FIB however I
> haven’t been able to do any failover timing tests. I would still expect this
> to
> be fairly quick since the backup prefix is computed and programmed into FIB.
> In a PIC edge scenario only a small number (usually) of prefixes are being
> updated due to a CE-PE failure, comparatively speaking to a P/PE node failure
> which may require a set of full-table prefixes that need next-hop updates.
>
Quick and easy test would be to run a ping test and you shouldn't lose a single
packet.
> In the case that a PE connected to a transit provider goes bang the 7600s are
> still slow to update. I don’t even have to measure this I can see it when
> performing maintenance work on transit links (CPU shoots to 100% and SSH
> slows down a bit etc whilst BGP churns).
>
To solve this you can use bgp pic-core then the speed of convergence would be
reduced to how fast the IGP can propagate the BGP NH failure to ingress PE
(that you can tune as well).
adam
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