On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > > On Oct 1, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Manav Bhatia wrote: > >> In 6 hours you will have around 8000K BFD packets. Add OSPF, >> RSVP, BGP, LACP (for lags), dot1AG, EFM and you would really get a >> significant number of packets to buffer. > > > Which isn't a 'HUGE!' amount of packets. > > ;>
Yup, but when trying to figure out the root cause of some problem, having a few gigs of data would be helpful. In the event people have not noticed, hard drives are semi-popular in routers now, so assuming you have some variable amount of disk space greater than 8MB for an image is feasible. - Jared