Re: Maximum Prefix Limit

"Manav Bhatia" <mnvbhatia@yahoo.com> Thu, 17 January 2002 05:04 UTC

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From: Manav Bhatia <mnvbhatia@yahoo.com>
To: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com>
Cc: idr@merit.edu
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Subject: Re: Maximum Prefix Limit
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:35:23 +0530
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| > - Should there be counters for individual SAFI or should there be a
| > consolidated one for the entire AFI?
|
| Those of us working on the v2MIB would like to hear opinions on this!

Does it really make sense to have seperate counters for each SAFI?
The session in any case will be torn even if the threshold for a single
SAFI crosses. Does it make much sense in saying that," i will accept x SAFI
1 routes, y SAFI 2 routes, etc"?

Rather than this there should be a single max limit for each AFI family
which when violated should tear down the BGP session.

Regards,
Manav




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