Arista 7280r - handling full DFZ in IPv4 + IPv6?

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salvadorb

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Jul 14, 2021
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Hi guys,
I hope you're doing well. I'm new to the 7280r family of Arista devices. I just got a DCS-7280QR-36, and I'm wondering if it can really support full DFZ in both IPv4 and IPv6?
I run the FlexRoutes commands "#ip hardware fib optimize prefixes profile internet" and "#ipv6 hardware fib optimize prefixes profile internet" and after that I restarted the layer3 forwarding agent with "#agent SandL3Unicast terminate", but now only with full IPv4 routes (and IPv6 default) I do see 95% utilization in the Jericho ASIC, I haven't enabled full IPv6 to about over 100% utilization. I was wondering if I'm missing something or is it just that the hardware can't support full DFZ tables.

Output of show platform sand l3 summary

Code:
#show platform sand l3 summary
Number of vrfs: 2

Ipv4:
  Routes:       974293  backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0
  Adjacencies:  32      backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0
Ipv6:
  Routes:       21  backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0
  Adjacencies:  32  backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0
Mpls:
  Routes:       0  backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0
  Adjacencies:  0  backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0

Jericho Ip Fecs:
  Non-ecmp fecs:  4114  ecmp fecs:  0  fec entries:  4114
Jericho Mpls Fecs:
  Non-ecmp fecs:  0  ecmp fecs:  0  fec entries:  0
Jericho Vxlan Overlay Fecs:
  Non-ecmp fecs:  0  ecmp fecs:  0  fec entries:  0
Jericho Vxlan Tunnel Fecs:
  Non-ecmp fecs:  0  ecmp fecs:  0  fec entries:  0
  Number of vxlan tunnels configured: 0

Jericho Lpm Routes:
  Routes:   299082  unprogrammed:   0  
  Routes6:  21      unprogrammed6:  0  
  Backlog:  0    

Jericho Lpm:
  TCAM pivots used:  1348   Percent free:  34
  Buckets used:      25088  Rows used:     856  Entries Per Bucket:  11    Percent free:  23

Lem:
  IPv4  Host in Lem:            disabled                
  IPv4  Prefix-lengths in Lem:  20 24                  
  IPv4  Routes per prefix-len   [/20]=62841 [/24]=684297
  IPv6  Host in Lem:            disabled
  IPv6  Prefix-lengths in Lem:  48    
  IPv6  Routes per prefix-len          
  Number of downloads:        0
  Number of overflow events:  0

Ipv6 Host Tcam Status:
  Compression Tcam banks:             4
PC-MDE1-R1.RT-VYNTERA(config)#show platform sand l3 summary
Number of vrfs: 2

Ipv4:
  Routes:       974289  backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0
  Adjacencies:  32      backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0
Ipv6:
  Routes:       21  backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0
  Adjacencies:  32  backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0
Mpls:
  Routes:       0  backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0
  Adjacencies:  0  backlog:  0  unprogrammed:  0

Jericho Ip Fecs:
  Non-ecmp fecs:  4114  ecmp fecs:  0  fec entries:  4114
Jericho Mpls Fecs:
  Non-ecmp fecs:  0  ecmp fecs:  0  fec entries:  0
Jericho Vxlan Overlay Fecs:
  Non-ecmp fecs:  0  ecmp fecs:  0  fec entries:  0
Jericho Vxlan Tunnel Fecs:
  Non-ecmp fecs:  0  ecmp fecs:  0  fec entries:  0
  Number of vxlan tunnels configured: 0

Jericho Lpm Routes:
  Routes:   299077  unprogrammed:   0  
  Routes6:  21      unprogrammed6:  0  
  Backlog:  0    

Jericho Lpm:
  TCAM pivots used:  1348   Percent free:  34
  Buckets used:      25088  Rows used:     856  Entries Per Bucket:  11    Percent free:  23

Lem:
  IPv4  Host in Lem:            disabled                
  IPv4  Prefix-lengths in Lem:  20 24                  
  IPv4  Routes per prefix-len   [/20]=62841 [/24]=684300
  IPv6  Host in Lem:            disabled
  IPv6  Prefix-lengths in Lem:  48    
  IPv6  Routes per prefix-len          
  Number of downloads:        0
  Number of overflow events:  0

Ipv6 Host Tcam Status:
  Compression Tcam banks:             4
  Number of host routes:              0
  Number of compression map entries:  0

  Arp Egress Banks in use:                        0  
  Arp Remote Egress Banks in use:                 None
  Ip tunnel Egress Banks in use:                  None
  MPLS (for outer 2 labels) Egress Banks in use:  None
  MPLS (for inner 2 labels) Egress Banks in use:  None
  SVI egress counters Egress Banks in use:        None


Egress Arp rewrite entries in use (in each fap):
  FixedSystem: 8 13
Egress Arp remote rewrite entries in use (in each fap):
  FixedSystem: 0 0
Egress Ip tunnel rewrite entries in use (in each fap):
  FixedSystem: 0 0
Egress Mpls (for outer 2 labels) rewrite entries in use (in each fap):
  FixedSystem: 0 0
Egress Mpls (for inner 2 labels) rewrite entries in use (in each fap):
  FixedSystem: 0 0
Egress Sflow rewrite entries in use (in each fap):
  FixedSystem: 0 0

Egress rewrite chains in backlog: resource-full 0, no-interface 0

Glem is disabled

Route Update State:
  v4 route update suspended:  False
  v6 route update suspended:  False

Jericho Fec:
  Maximum FEC hierarchy levels:  2
  Used:                     16  ecmp:                 1   reusedEcmp:  0     allocs:  17    frees:  1     shuffles:  0     cmds:  0  
  Non-ecmp (Percent free):  99  ecmp (Percent free):  99
  Zombies:     0    purges:    0
  Quarantine:  0/0  shuffles:  0  deletes:  0  
  Fec insertion failures:  0
  Banks in use (level, used, Percent free):
     2 (2, 16, 99%)

Lpm Detail:
  Requests:  299474  cleanses:  213  batches:  213  avg batch size:  1405

Lem Cmds:
  Adds:  756434  dels:  9293  mods:  1  fails:  0  cmds:  765728

Ipv6 Host Routes Status Detail
  Number of host route add:              0
  Number of host route del:              0
  Number of host compression map add:    0
  Number of host compression map del:    0
  Number of host tcam entry add:         0
  Number of host tcam entry del:         0
  Number of host lem entry add:          0
  Number of host lem entry del:          0
  Number of host tcam bank alloc req:    1
  Number of host tcam bank release req:  0
  Number of host routes recovered after restart:           0
  Number of host compression map recovered after restart:  0

Jericho Arp:
  ArpTable writes:      127      queued      0  
  IngressTable writes:  1169374  queued      0  
  Coprocessors:         2        in CmdRing

TopBank To EedbBank Mapping:
None

Ecmp prefer local enabled:  False
Tunnel Counter Status
  Number of MPLS tunnels:                  0  
  Number of uncountable MPLS tunnels:      0  
  Number of MPLSoGRE tunnels:              0  
  Number of uncountable MPLSoGRE tunnels:  0  
  Number of IP tunnels:                    0  
  Number of uncountable IP tunnels:        0  
  Shuffle tunnel enabled:                  False
 

salvadorb

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And here is the output of the "show hardware capacity" command

Code:
#show hardware capacity
Forwarding Resources Usage

Table             Feature              Chip              Used    Used       Free    Committed     Best Case        High
                                                      Entries     (%)    Entries      Entries           Max   Watermark
                                                                                                    Entries           
----------------- -------------------- ------------- ---------- ------- ---------- ------------ ------------- ---------
                                       Jericho0             5      0%       4090            0          4095           5
                                       Jericho1             5      0%       4090            0          4095           5
ECMP                                                        0      0%       4095            0          4095           0
ECMP              Mpls                                      0      0%       4095            0          4095           0
ECMP              Routing                                   0      0%       4095            0          4095           0
ECMP              VxlanOverlay                              0      0%       4095            0          4095           0
ECMP              VxlanTunnel                               0      0%       3891            0          3891           0
EEDB                                   Jericho0             8      0%      81912            0         81920           8
EEDB                                   Jericho1            13      0%      81907            0         81920          13
EEDB              ARP                  Jericho0             8      0%      81912         4096         81920           8
EEDB              ARP                  Jericho1            13      0%      81907         4096         81920          13
EEDB              ArpRemote            Jericho0             0      0%      32768            0         32768           0
EEDB              ArpRemote            Jericho1             0      0%      32768            0         32768           0
EEDB              MplsTunnel           Jericho0             0      0%      77824            0         81920           0
EEDB              MplsTunnel           Jericho1             0      0%      77824            0         81920           0
EEDB              Tunnel               Jericho0             0      0%      77824            0         81920           0
EEDB              Tunnel               Jericho1             0      0%      77824            0         81920           0
EEDBTopBank       Evpn                 Jericho0             0      0%      32768            0         32768           0
EEDBTopBank       Evpn                 Jericho1             0      0%      32768            0         32768           0
ESEM                                   Jericho0             0      0%      16384            0         16384           0
ESEM                                   Jericho1             5      0%      16379            0         16384           5
FEC                                                      4114      3%     122862            0        126976        4115
FEC               Mpls                                      0      0%     122862            0        126976           0
FEC               Routing                                4114      3%     122862            0        126976        4115
FEC               VxlanMemTunnel                            0      0%     122862            0        126976           0
FEC               VxlanOverlay                              0      0%     122862            0        126976           0
FEC               VxlanTunnel                               0      0%      28672            0         28672           0
ISEMA                                  Jericho0             2      0%      65534            0         65536           2
ISEMA                                  Jericho1             2      0%      65534            0         65536           2
ISEMADivergent                         Jericho0             0      0%      16384            0         16384           0
ISEMADivergent                         Jericho1             0      0%      16384            0         16384           0
ISEMB                                  Jericho0             0      0%      65536            0         65536           0
ISEMB                                  Jericho1             6      0%      65530            0         65536           6
ISEMBDivergent                         Jericho0             0      0%      16384            0         16384           0
ISEMBDivergent                         Jericho1             6      0%      16378            0         16384           6
InLIF             ManagedTt                                 0      0%      21845            0         21845           0
InLIF             ManagedVsi                                7      0%      21838            0         21845           7
InLIF             PortDefault                              12      0%      32756            0         32768          12
InLIF             TunnelTermination                        26      0%      32742            0         32768          26
LEM                                    Jericho0        747147     95%      39285            0        786432      747148
LEM                                    Jericho1        747147     95%      39285            0        786432      747148
LEM               MAC                                       6      0%      39285            0        786432           6
LEM               Mpls                                      0      0%      39285            0        786432           0
LEM               V4Mroutes            Jericho0             0      0%      39286            0        131072           0
LEM               V4Mroutes            Jericho1             0      0%      39286            0        131072           0
MCDB                                   Jericho0            20      0%     262123            0        262143          20
MCDB                                   Jericho1            32      0%     262111            0        262143          32
OutAc                                  Jericho0             1      0%       8191            0          8192           1
OutAc                                  Jericho1             6      0%       8186            0          8192           6
OutAc             Common               Jericho0             1      0%       4097            0          4098           1
OutAc             Common               Jericho1             1      0%       4097            0          4098           1
OutAc             L3Subinterface       Jericho0             0      0%       4094            0          4094           0
OutAc             L3Subinterface       Jericho1             5      0%       4089            0          4094           5
OutAc             SviEgress            Jericho0             0      0%          0            0             0           0
OutAc             SviEgress            Jericho1             0      0%          0            0             0           0
Routing           Resource1            Jericho           1348     65%        700            0          2048        1664
Routing           Resource2            Jericho            856     83%        168            0          1024        1009
Routing           Resource3            Jericho          25088     76%       7680            0         32768       29916
Routing           V4Hosts                                   0      0%      39285            0        163840           5
Routing           V4Routes                             747141     95%      39285            0        786432      747142
Routing           V6Hosts                                   0      0%      39285            0        163840           2
Routing           V6Routes                                  0      0%      39285            0        786432           0
SIP               Tunnel                                    0      0%         16            0            16           0
SubInterfaces                                               5      0%       4090            0          4095           5
Subinterfaces     Shape/Schedule                            0      0%        512            0           512           1
TCAM              ACL                  Jericho0             0      0%      22528            0         24576           0
TCAM              ACL                  Jericho1            34      0%      22494         6144         24576          34
TCAM              Aegis                Jericho0             0      0%      22528            0         24576           0
TCAM              Aegis                Jericho1             0      0%      16384            0         24576           0
TCAM              CBF                                       0      0%      16384            0         24576           0
TCAM              CpuPolicy            Jericho0             0      0%      22528            0         24576           0
TCAM              CpuPolicy            Jericho1             0      0%      16384            0         24576           0
TCAM              DirectFlow           Jericho0             0      0%      22528            0         24576           0
TCAM              DirectFlow           Jericho1             0      0%      16384            0         24576           0
TCAM              FlexRoute                                 0      0%          0            0             0           0
TCAM              Flowspec             Jericho0             0      0%      22528            0         24576           0
TCAM              Flowspec             Jericho1             0      0%      16384            0         24576           0
TCAM              PBR                  Jericho0             0      0%      22528            0         24576           0
TCAM              PBR                  Jericho1             0      0%      16384            0         24576           0
TCAM              QOS                  Jericho0             0      0%      22528            0         24576           0
TCAM              QOS                  Jericho1             0      0%      16384            0         24576           1
TCAM              Subnets                                   0      0%       1024         1024          1024           2
TCAM              TapAgg               Jericho0             0      0%      22528            0         24576           0
TCAM              TapAgg               Jericho1             0      0%      16384            0         24576           0
TCAM              V4Mroutes            Jericho0.0           0      0%      45056            0         49152           0
TCAM              V4Mroutes            Jericho1.0           0      0%      32768            0         49152           0
TCAM              V6Mroutes            Jericho0.0           0      0%      22528            0         24576           0
TCAM              V6Mroutes            Jericho1.0           0      0%      16384            0         24576           0
TTL               Tunnel                                    0      0%          4            0             4           0
 

johankarlsson

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Hi there,

I highly recommend you enable FIB compression with the following commands:

Code:
ip fib compression redundant-specifics filter
ipv6 fib compression redundant-specifics filter