All things related to multicast

["William F. Maton" <>]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, debbie fligor wrote:

> At 13:30 -0400 5/27/04, William F. Maton wrote:
> > All,
> > 	Is there another worm out there affecting MSDP?  I was setting up a 
> > new peer just now and I'm seeing MSDP entries climbing quite fast, I'm 
> > over 19000 now...(then resetting back to around 18400).
>
> I can't answer your question, but it does remind me to ask what a "normal" 
> number of sa-cache entries is.  we got our new software load, and nothing's 
> working now, apparently because we're going over the maximum # of sa-cache 
> entries, which Foundry set to 4096.  this wasn't a problem before, so I don't 
> think I ever noticed how many we were seeing.

IIRC, it hovered at around 5600.  I've been meaning to graph this, but I 
think someone else has been doing this (CAIDA?).

> Their engineers are looking at it, but I'd like to know how many sa-cache 
> entries we should expect to see, so I can tell them how big a buffer, as 
> we're not sure they actually have an mbone connection to test on.

Thry gleaning it from here:

        http://noc.aarnet.edu.au/mrtg/router/multicast.html

It's Australia, but we're interconnected, and therefore it's all in the 
family. :-)

wfms