I can always ask my SE to check its' status on my end.

I'll be definitly interested if you get a feedback.

Best regards.



> Le 31 août 2016 à 19:43, David Hubbard <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
> 
> Ah, good catch, I forgot about the RFE.  It’s 102535.  I’ll attempt to find 
> its status.
>  
> From: Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 12:36 PM
> To: David Hubbard <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Does VRF still take CAM resources from 'ipv4 vpn' in 
> later MLXe code?
>  
> Dear David,
>  
> I'm in the exact same case. I have started seeing those exact IPv6 CAM error 
> related messages 3 weeks ago. Interestingly enough, only getting those for 
> MLXe boxes and not CER-RT.
>  
> I'm running 5.7e and about to upgrade to 5.8e.
>  
> If memory serves right, I think I read something in some release notes (or 
> other documentation) about a special feature/profil that would accomodate CAM 
> for 1 VRF. I can't seem to recall which, so I'd invite you to read the 
> litterature.
>  
> Also, IIRC, I think I read That someone put up an RFE for this following your 
> thread two years ago.
>  
> Best regards.
>  
>  
> 
> Le 31 août 2016 à 18:20, David Hubbard <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
> 
> Hey all, in 2014 I ran into an issue where I converted an MLXe to the 
> ipv4-ipv6-2 profile to get maximum routes for both.  When I did that, I lost 
> management access because I use management VRF’s, and those require resources 
> from the ‘IPv4 VPN’ segment of CAM.  The ipv4-ipv6-2 profile sets that to 
> zero.  So, I switched to multi-service-4 as a workaround since it still had 
> enough room.
>  
> Fast forward two years and IPv6 adoption has increased to the point where an 
> MLXe with –X cards is just about out of CAM if it’s acting as an internet 
> router and using the multi-service-4 profile.  Starting to see these alerts:
>  
> Aug 31 11:51:10:A:CAM IPv6 partition warning: total 32768 (reserved 0), free 
> 1602, slot 3, ppcr 1
>  
> because internet routers are seeing roughly 31,000 IPv6 advertisements now 
> and multi-service-4 only has room for 32k.
>  
> At the time, there was no way to configure custom CAM values, such as my 
> desired goal of 768k minus 1 ipv4, 64k ipv6, 1 IPv4 VPN to facilitate one 
> VRF.  I didn’t want to use ipv4-ipv6-2 either since I like having the VRF.
>  
> Is there any workaround for this issue in later code releases?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> David
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