TOI Author :: Srinivasan Koona Lokabiraman

The service insertion framework is intended to cover the gamut of features related to service insertion.

The internet exit feature enables hosts attached to a VRF in an edge router to reach prefixes that may be reachable over the internet. Since the addresses assigned within a VRF may be non-routable private addresses which cannot be directly used when going to the Internet, the NAT feature is used as a part of the Internet exit solution to provide internet connectivity.

The BGP graceful restart mechanism has a limitation that the graceful restart time cannot exceed 4095 seconds per the

The BGP graceful restart mechanism has a limitation that the graceful restart time cannot exceed 4095 seconds as per

It is often useful to know on a per AFI/SAFI basis, the number of paths that have been selected from a peer as best paths.