On 2013-10-18, at 11:40, Manav Bhatia <manavbhatia@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like understand the circumstances under which an operator may want to clear all (or a subset of) the routes programmed in the forwarding table (FIB).
Because of bugs which have led to the FIB containing data that doesn't match the RIB, and which is causing customer enragement. They don't call it CEF for nothing.
I believe the command to do this on Cisco is
clear forwarding {ipv4 | ipv6} route {* | prefix} [vrf vrf-name] module {slot| all}
Cool. Back when I was chasing packets at 6461 the best we could do was router(config)# interface blah router(config-if)# shutdown router(config-if)# no shutdown
I ask this since doing this would result in the router dropping all transit traffic till the routes get reprogrammed in the FIB.
Seems likely!
Why would somebody ever want to do this?
Screaming customer on the phone. Joe