1 Oct
2010
1 Oct
'10
3:31 a.m.
Buffering for 4-6 hours worth of control traffic is HUGE!
If 4-6 hours of *control-plane* traffic on a given device is 'HUGE!', for some reasonable modern value of 'HUGE!', then there's definitely a problem on the network in question.
With BFD alone (assuming 20 sessions, 50ms timer) you will have 400pps. In 6 hours you will have around 8000K BFD packets. Add OSPF, RSVP, BGP, LACP (for lags), dot1AG, EFM and you would really get a significant number of packets to buffer. Cheers, Manav