OT: Full BGP route table doing go slow down a router by running

From: Rob Clav <robclav_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 00:45:19 +0100

Hi,

I had doubts about how to troubleshooting the following scenario.
"A company is dual homed using a couple of 10Mbps connections, but they are
complaining about a slow connection."
Well the scenario is two routers speaking iBGP with just one eBGP each. They
are using VRRP in order to be used as a default gateway by the internal
networks.

Clue A: They have (almost) the global full BGP route, they are not learning
them for the IGP ("no sync").
Clue B: They are announcing only self generated prefixes(itself AS) and
receiving only from their peers(4 hops away using ebgp multihop).
Clue C: The service provider ensure there's no congestions on the lines and
the customer is using the 60% of the lines.
Clue D: No QoS in place
Clue E: There's several logs associated to incomming ACLs.
Last Clue: There's 15Mb free RAM allocable.

The amount of the Ram at both routers are 256 Mb, the Cisco minimum RAM
amount, is 512Mb for full BGP table.

Obviously the amount of RAM is an issue but, if the Ram is running out, then
the connection will go slow down or stop?

Any comment will be appreciated,
Robclav

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