Hi

If you exhaust the max ip-route count the router will simply reject any 
additional entries to the route table.

We experienced an issue with the default values when we implemented our NetIron 
CER, we would receive a full table from one provider, only half of what another 
was sending us an any manual "ip route" commands added after the fact would end 
up in configuration but not in the routing table.

We bumped this value up significantly and all our issues were solved. That is 
assuming of course that the hardware platform in question can allocate the 
memory for this to happen.

Regards,

Josh Farrelly.

-----Original Message-----
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Joeri Vanthienen
Sent: Monday, 3 March, 2014 9:06 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [f-nsp] BigIron RX FIB Capacity

Hi all,

We have some BigIron RX routers configured with the maximum FIB capacity values:

system-max ip-cache 524288
system-max ip-route 524288


What will exactly happen if we reach the limit on this platform? Will the 
router insert some kind of default entry to punt lookup exceptions to software? 
Do you get some kind of cache trashing? Are the oldest entries swapped by 
newer, or shorter prefixes removed in favor of more specific prefixes ?
In the future we will need to combine BGP prefix filters with a default route 
to overcome the limitations of this platform, but I'm just very curious how 
Brocade has implemented this :) Is RIB -> FIB filtering implemented (or on the 
roadmap) for the newer MLX and CER platforms?

Thanks in advance.
Joeri
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