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SubjectRe: [kernel] net.ipv6.route.max_size
 	Hello Lukasz ,
Since I have not seen anyone else suggest this or to do so I'll forward
this onto the NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org> list for their perusal as well .

Hth , JimL

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Lukasz Trabinski wrote:
> Hello
>
> IPv6 route table size is still growing. In stanard linux box configuration
> with IPv6 BGP session (with ipv6 world table) and BGP application like
> Quagga,
> we have problem like this:
>
> 2011/02/12 18:43:52 ZEBRA: netlink-cmd error: Cannot allocate memory,
> type=RTM_NEWROUTE(24), seq=11124600, pid=0
>
> This problem shows us that's all prefixes comes from BGP can't be install
> into FIB
>
> IN BGP application we can see, that's we recive 4484 prefixes from ipv6
> neighbor:
>
> cosmos> show bgp summary
> Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down
> State/PfxRcd
> 2001:1a68:0:c::1
> 4 24724 431945 70172 0 0 0 2d01h18m 4484
>
>
> I suggest that net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_max_size should be increase.
> Below _simple_ patch for this problem. I don't understand why in ipv4/route
> we have different method to count ip4_rt_max_size? My value 65536 in near
> future will be also wrong. I know also, that we can change it by sysctl, but
> I thing that it's not good way to fix it.
>
>
> --- route.c~ 2011-02-14 20:26:12.000000000 +0100
> +++ route.c 2011-02-14 20:30:04.000000000 +0100
> @@ -2708,7 +2708,7 @@
> #endif
>
> net->ipv6.sysctl.flush_delay = 0;
> - net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_max_size = 4096;
> + net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_max_size = 65536;
> net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_min_interval = HZ / 2;
> net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_timeout = 60*HZ;
> net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_interval = 30*HZ;
>
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