Hi Blake, On 10 Jun 2014, at 19:04, Blake Hudson <blake@ispn.net> wrote:
In this case, does the 512k limit of the 6500/7600 refer to the RIB or the FIB? And does it even matter since the BGP prefix table can automatically be reduced to ~300k routes?
Te 512k limit refers to FIB in the B/C (base) versions of 6500/7600 Supervisors and DFCs (for line cards). BXL/CXL versions have FIB for 1M IPv4 prefixes. You can find more information here: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-6500-series-swit... And yes, you’re right - no matter how many neighbors you have, the FIB will only contain best paths, so it will be closer to 500k entries in total rather than N times number of neighbours. -- "There's no sense in being precise when | Łukasz Bromirski you don't know what you're talking | jid:lbromirski@jabber.org about." John von Neumann | http://lukasz.bromirski.net