nanog mailing list archives

Re: Friday's Random Comment - About: Arista and FIB/RIB's


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 21:25:14 +0100

Baldur Norddahl wrote:
With two uplinks that is highly unlikely to the point of being impossible.
There is no topology change upstream that can cause a situation where it is
not possible to do a high degree of aggregation of the full default free
routing table before loading it in the FIB.

which is why I qualified this in a previous posting:

The more paths you receive from different sources, the more likely it
is that this list of 120k "superfluous" prefixes will converge
towards zero.

Agreed that small numbers of paths are most unlikely to create the
conditions for this problem to occur.

Nick



Current thread: