[FROG] Limitations on Bulk Addition of Static Routes in FRR?

[Donald Sharp]

I am a bit surprised that this is having issues.  I'll give it a try with
several thousand static routes.  In the meantime I would recommend running
sharpd and installing the routes using that.  The cli would be:

`sharp install routes 10.0.0.0 nexthop <valid nexthop> 850000`

This will create 850k /32 routes starting at 10.0.0.0, in bgp just do a
`redistribute sharp` that should work fine.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 2:14 PM Tim Nelson <tim.e.nelson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings-
>
> I'm attempting to use FRR 7.5.1 running on Debian 11.1 in a lab
> environment to simulate an upstream BGP peer to other network devices. I
> wrote a quick shell script to generate all of the /24s in IPv4 address
> space and have tried loading these into FRR two different ways:
>
> a) Writing all static route config directives to a separate config file,
> then loading that config live using "vtysh -f /tmp/nets"
> b) Appending the static route config directives to my existing
> /etc/frr/frr.conf file and restarting the frr service
>
> Both options fail to load routes after the first few thousand or so (
> 1.0.0.0/24 through 1.4.238.0/24, none further).
>
> The logs don't indicate any problems or cause for the failure to load
> additional routes. The system has plenty of resources so I don't expect
> this to be a memory problem.
>
> Thoughts on what I could be doing wrong and suggestions on how to
> accomplish this? Thanks!
>
> --Tim
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