Enable the Border-Routing TCAM Profile

Enabling the border-routing Ternary Content-Addressable Memory (TCAM) profile ensures that the maximum number of BGP flowspec match criteria and actions is supported in the hardware.

About this task

Important

This procedure requires a system reload to activate the profile configuration.

1. From privileged EXEC mode, enter global configuration mode.
   

   device# configure terminal

2. Enter hardware configuration mode.
   

   device(config)# hardware

3. Enable a BGP flowspec profile in TCAM.
   

   device(config-hardware)# profile tcam border-routing

4. (Optional) Enable forward or drop statistics using one of the following options.
   

   device(config-hardware)# profile counters counter-profile-1

   

   device(config-hardware)# profile counters counter-profile-4

5. Access privileged EXEC mode.
   

   device(config-hardware)# exit

6. Activate the profile configuration.
   

   device# reload system

Example

The following example summarizes the commands in this procedure.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# hardware
device(config-hardware)# profile tcam border-routing 
device(config-hardware)# profile counters counter-profile-1
device(config-hardware)# exit
device# reload system