On 5/6/22 11:26, Saku Ytti wrote:

You are always here. You always need to understand your scale and how much resources you have available, what is possible and what is not.

Of course, if this was the case with the global Internet, we'd have far fewer problems making it work well than we do today :-).

Existence or non-existence of configuration toggle to affect this doesn't make that situation worse or better. It is not implied to be a tactical short-term fix, it depends and you must understand what you are doing to determine your position in any case.

You and I (and many others) have enough experience to know that many operations will either underestimate or not understand the technical abilities (or disabilities) of their platforms, as long as it works, for the most part. Things like FIB programming and FIB scaling are some of the least understood and least monitored abilities of any platform, amongst others. And yes, there are platforms where having or not having the hack enabled does make a material difference on either side of the pendulum (especially in platforms with a small FIB, to begin with). My point is to remind the OP that if little care was given to this issue before it occurred, they should increase their focus on it going forward, not in spite of the re-carving hack, but also because of it. Mark.