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Re: CAM IP partition warning - Error Help MLXe X 1 million routes
If you want to carry full IPv4 routes, you'll have to use ipv4-ipv6-2, or multi-service-4, however the IPv6 routes on multi-service-4 will probably not be enough for very long. If you're not carrying full routes, you can adjust based on your needs. Just follow the tables in the cam partitioning profiles to find a cam partition that matches your needs, then adjust your system-max values for ip-cache and ip-route accordingly once you have a cam profile that can support what you're trying to set.

-Vinny

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From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of David Hubbard
Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 12:39 PM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] CAM IP partition warning - Error Help MLXe X 1 million routes

Is there a table that shows the values that are used for -X cards with the ipv4-ipv6 and ipv4-ipv6-2 profiles? Only one I could find seems to be for the normal cards
http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/html_product_manuals/NI_05600
_ADMIN/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm#href=CAM_part.11.2.html&sin
gle=true

Trying to understand when you'd want to use ipv4-ipv6 vs ipv4-ipv6-2

Thanks,

David

-----Original Message-----
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mike Tindle
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 11:01 PM
To: James B; foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] CAM IP partition warning - Error Help MLXe X 1 million routes

James,

Did you also change the cam-partiion profile you are using?

router#sh cam-part | i profile
CAM partitioning profile: ipv4-ipv6-2

If you're using the default profile, it will still have the tcam carved for 512k IPv4 routes.

Also, updating the cam profile takes a reload.

Regards,
Mike

On Aug 6, 2014, at 7:23 PM, James B wrote:



Hi All

We are using both 5.3d and 5.4d on different devices and getting the same errors on different MLXe X platform, which should support 1 million routes.

CAM IP partition warning: total 524288 (reserved 0), free 26214, slot 3, ppcr 1

However we have increased the ip-route and ip-cache cam to
maximum:

System Parameters Default Maximum Current Actual
Bootup Revertible
mac 131072 2097152 131072 131072
131072 Yes
vlan 512 4095 1024 1024
1024 No
spanning-tree 32 128 32 32
32 No
rstp 32 128 32 32
32 No
ip-arp 8192 65536 8192 8192
8192 No
ip-cache 204800 1048576 1048576
1048576 1048576 Yes
ip-route 204800 1048576 1048576
1048576 1048576 Yes


Whilst the error is for 500k routes the maximum is set to 1 million routes, what could be causing these errors ?

Thanks

James


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Re: CAM IP partition warning - Error Help MLXe X 1 million routes [ In reply to ]
I suspect you may need to use multi-service-4 to give cam resources for IPv4 VPN (or whatever profile fits your needs that contains IPv4/6 VPN). The ipv4-ipv6-2 has no IPv4 VPN or IPv6 VPN resources allocated in it. See if that works.

-Vinny

---Original Message-----
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of David Hubbard
Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 3:04 PM
To: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] CAM IP partition warning - Error Help MLXe X 1 million routes

Would a cam profile change affect layer 3 services in a VRF? :-)

I just switched a test router to ipv4-ipv6-2 from default and lost my management access via network. I have a management vrf defined with a gig port member since the management port can't be in a management vrf in the code version I'm running. After the reload, the router still responds to arp requests but won't talk ssh, snmp or ntp, which are the only services I have enabled, or respond to ping. All the normal stuff not in the vrf came up fine (bgp & ospf).

-----Original Message-----
From: James Cornman [mailto:james@atlanticmetro.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 1:21 PM
To: David Hubbard
Cc: foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] CAM IP partition warning - Error Help MLXe X 1 million routes

David,

I think ipv4-ipv6 is there really to preserve prior deployments that may justify any adjustments to the cam-profile. I haven't found anyone who uses that for any new deployments, unless its just for testing or just very basic layer3.

In most cases ipv4-ipv6-2 or multi-service-4 (or whatever its called) seem the most attractive in comparison. This is all in reference to XMR/MLXe. MLX itself (with or with out -X cards), is a different story.

Also, I think the cards state that they support 1million routes, but I don't think there is a cam profile for exactly 1million routes for IPv4..the rest of the capabilities get spread across ipv4/mpls/mac address/acl's, etc.

SSH@router#show mod | inc S2
S2: BR-MLX-10Gx4-X 4-port 10GbE Module
CARD_STATE_UP
SSH@router#show cam-partition usage slot 2

CAM partitioning profile: ipv4-ipv6-2

Slot 2 XPP20SP 0:
[IP] 786432(size), 282381(free), 064.09%(used)

-James


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:39 PM, David Hubbard wrote:


Is there a table that shows the values that are used for -X cards with
the ipv4-ipv6 and ipv4-ipv6-2 profiles? Only one I could find seems to
be for the normal cards

http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/html_product_manuals/NI_05600

_ADMIN/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm#href=CAM_part.11.2.html&sin
gle=true
0
_ADMIN/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm#href=CAM_part.11.2.html&sin
gle=true>

Trying to understand when you'd want to use ipv4-ipv6 vs
ipv4-ipv6-2

Thanks,

David

-----Original Message-----
From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces@puck.nether.net]
On Behalf
Of Mike Tindle
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 11:01 PM
To: James B; foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] CAM IP partition warning - Error Help MLXe X 1
million routes

James,

Did you also change the cam-partiion profile you are using?

router#sh cam-part | i profile
CAM partitioning profile: ipv4-ipv6-2

If you're using the default profile, it will still have the tcam carved
for 512k IPv4 routes.

Also, updating the cam profile takes a reload.

Regards,
Mike

On Aug 6, 2014, at 7:23 PM, James B wrote:



Hi All

We are using both 5.3d and 5.4d on different devices and getting
the same errors on different MLXe X platform, which should support 1
million routes.

CAM IP partition warning: total 524288 (reserved 0), free 26214,
slot 3, ppcr 1

However we have increased the ip-route and ip-cache cam to
maximum:

System Parameters Default Maximum Current
Actual
Bootup Revertible
mac 131072 2097152 131072
131072
131072 Yes
vlan 512 4095 1024
1024
1024 No
spanning-tree 32 128 32
32
32 No
rstp 32 128 32
32
32 No
ip-arp 8192 65536 8192
8192
8192 No
ip-cache 204800 1048576 1048576
1048576 1048576 Yes
ip-route 204800 1048576 1048576
1048576 1048576 Yes


Whilst the error is for 500k routes the maximum is set to 1
million routes, what could be causing these errors ?

Thanks

James


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