Re: [f-nsp] IPv6 DFZ and TCAM partitionning

Hi Clement :-)

Sur, I thought of that. But knowing sales guys in my company, someone at
some point will have the brilliant idea of selling an L3VPN and then I will
be sc*$€wed.

So, I'm trying to be creative here.... But I think my options are rather
limited.

BR.




2017-06-14 8:08 GMT+02:00 Clement Cavadore <[email protected]>:

> I'd rather change my management method and switch to ipv4-ipv6-2  :-)
>
> On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 01:02 +0200, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr wrote:
> > Dear Daniel,
> >
> > Is this really the only option ?
> >
> > Either shrinking the DFZ or upgrade to newer LPs ?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Le 14 juin 2017 à 00:37, Daniel Schmidt <[email protected]> a
> écrit :
> > >
> > > No one really.  My 2 cents:
> > >
> > > Use option #1, have each provider send you an additional default, and
> do an ASN filter list with a little help from this:
> > > https://github.com/ipcjk/asnbuilder
> > >
> > >> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > >> No one ? Really ?!?
> > >>
> > >> Y.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Le 13 juin 2017 à 10:05, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr <[email protected]>
> a écrit :
> > >>>
> > >>> Dear Foundry community,
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm about to revive an old trolly thread, but boy are they fun.
> > >>>
> > >>> With the growth of IPv6 DFZ over 32K entries, we have been receiving
> the following syslog error message on our MLXe gear :
> > >>>
> > >>> Jun 13 07:51:02:A:CAM IPv6 partition warning: total 32768 (reserved
> 0), free 6, slot 2, ppcr 1
> > >>> Jun 13 07:51:02:A:CAM IPv6 partition warning: total 32768 (reserved
> 0), free 6, slot 2, ppcr 0
> > >>>
> > >>> We receive full BGP feeds from multiple IP transit providers and
> YES, we DO filter prefixes over a /48 size.
> > >>>
> > >>> Our MLXe act as MPLS PEs and run the following hardware on NI58g :
> > >>>
> > >>> Module
> Status                       Ports    Starting MAC
> > >>> M1 (left ):BR-MLX-MR2-X Management Module
>  Standby(Ready State)
> > >>> M2 (right):BR-MLX-MR2-X Management Module
>  Active
> > >>> F1: NI-X-HSF Switch Fabric Module
>  Active
> > >>> F2: NI-X-HSF Switch Fabric Module
>  Active
> > >>> F3: NI-X-HSF Switch Fabric Module
>  Active
> > >>> S1: BR-MLX-10Gx4-X 4-port 10GbE Module
> CARD_STATE_UP                4        0024.38a4.fb00
> > >>> S2: BR-MLX-10Gx4-X 4-port 10GbE Module
> CARD_STATE_UP                4        0024.38a4.fb30
> > >>> S3: BR-MLX-1GFx24-X 24-port 1GbE SFP Module
>  CARD_STATE_UP                24       0024.38a4.fb60
> > >>> S4: BR-MLX-1GFx24-X 24-port 1GbE SFP Module
>  CARD_STATE_UP                24       0024.38a4.fb90
> > >>>
> > >>> For years, we have been using multi-service-4 CAM profil in order to
> provide pure IP connectivity and MPLS connectivity (mostly VPLS) to our
> clients.
> > >>>
> > >>> After investigating with BTAC, they told us that our hardware
> couldn't handle much more 32k with this profil :
> > >>>
> > >>> http://www.brocade.com/content/html/en/administration-guide/netiron-
> 05900-adminguide/GUID-F5A27733-F4A2-4367-8F83-E8A4C3DE6F0E.html
> > >>>
> > >>> We only use MPLS VRF for management prurposes. So, we are left with
> either :
> > >>>
> > >>> - Heavily filtering IPv6 bgp feeds + accepting a defaut route in
> order to get 1 MPLS VRF for management purposes,
> > >>>
> > >>> - Accepting full IPv6 BGP feed by migrating to ipv4-ipv6-2 Profile,
> and loose MPLS VRF.
> > >>>
> > >>> I seem to recall that someone on this list has been pushing Brocade
> to create a special profile to accomodate a very little number of MPLS
> VRFs. Did that happen ?
> > >>>
> > >>> Other than that, how do you guys handle this ? Maybe a nifty trick
> I'm not aware of ?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thank you for your wisdom.
> > >>>
> > >>> Best regards.
> > >>
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