> If we have 1000 of interfaces and all peers *all in the same time* will send > us an LSP of max size of 1492 octets that our control plane buffer RAM size > required to store them would be as huge as 1.5 MB. And that assumes we did > not process any from arrival of the first to the arrival of the last one.
And that’s only one LSP. If they don’t stop there and each sends 1000 LSPs, then you can have 10^6 incoming packets, requiring 1.6GB. Further, since the bottleneck is likely the queue of packet on the forwarding chip(s) to the CPU, this 1.6GB needs to exist on the forwarding silicon. Needless to say, it doesn’t. Yes, the CPU can probably keep up with one of the peers. This implies that the forwarding plane queue grows at the rate that 999 peers are sending at. Thus, congestion. Tony
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