From: Sergey Golovanov (sergey.golovanov@iementor.com)
Date: Wed Mar 07 2007 - 20:24:36 ART
I've been bugging TAC about this few times already. A 37xx router with more than 200 gre tunnels running with keepalives turned on will cause its CPU to go 100%. If you find a solution, let me know please :)
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>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Piotr Ojczyk <pojczyk@tlen.pl>
>  Subject: Tunnel keepalives
>  Sent: Mar 07 '07 17:44
>  
>  Hello,
>  
>  When there are a few tunnels configured with the same time interval, the
>  keepalives are sent simultaneously for all the interfaces. It causes quite
>  inconvenient situation when very big number of tunnels is used - a storm of
>  keepalives is then generated followed by the long idle time. Especially when
>  all the responding routers are connected to a multi-access network and try
>  to reply immediately causing collisions.
>  
>  Is there any possibility to spread tunnel keepalives to be sent in different
>  time?
>  
>  Thanks
>  Piotr
>  
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