[c-nsp] ASR1004 and NAT limitation?

2013-03-22 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I'm running an ASR1004 as a centralised CGNAT router. I've got various pools defined for different customers, and use a NAT route-map to stop private IPs being NAT'd when trying to reach our internal services (where we'd want to see the private IPs still). Typical config per customer is: ip

Re: [c-nsp] ASR1004 and NAT limitation?

2013-03-22 Thread Pete Lumbis
I'll make a note to add a publicly facing note for CSCtz33305, but the short of it is that the way the ASR1k installs NAT pools into TCAM is not very efficient when a deny statement exists in the ACL. I don't remember the exact numbers but a single deny ACL entry can expand out 3x or more

Re: [c-nsp] ASR1004 and NAT limitation?

2013-03-22 Thread Simon Lockhart
Pete, Many thanks for taking the time to respond. On Fri Mar 22, 2013 at 06:26:14PM +0100, Pete Lumbis wrote: My guess is the NAT configuration is actually exceeding TCAM on the ESP that is installed. You can take a look at show platform hardware qfp active tcam resource-manager to see the