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As I understand it we came close a few days ago but finally rolled over 512K today at which point some routers hit their hardware limits and either stop learnin
by mprovost 12y ago
As I understand it we came close a few days ago but finally rolled over 512K today at which point some routers hit their hardware limits and either stop learning new routes or start forwarding in software.
There is a lot of chatter about it on Twitter and some network mailing lists:
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2014-August/007091.html https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2014-August/007091...
It looks like some providers like Level3 have been having a bad day.