Huge Boot Time on BD8800

[Loic_Pasquiet]

Hi everybody,

We have some problems about our new BD88K boot time ≈ 40 min

We have 29 policys (1000 ACLs) on production, however with the same configuration on our previous BD10K, the boot time lasted 5 min.

We have the same problem with these versions:
Primary ver: 16.1.2.14
Secondary ver: 15.7.2.9

During the boot, a show slot command display "ACL sync".

Furthermore, a show slot give:

Slots Type Configured State Ports Flags-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Slot-1 8900-40G6X-xm 8900-40G6X-xm Operational 24 MB
Slot-2 8900-10G24X-c 8900-10G24X-c Operational 24 MB
Slot-3 8900-10G24X-c 8900-10G24X-c Operational 24 MB
Slot-4 Empty 0
Slot-5 Empty 0
Slot-6 Empty 0
Slot-7 G48Tc G48Tc Operational 48 MB
Slot-8 Empty 0
Slot-9 8900-G48X-xl 8900-G48X-xl Operational 48 MB
Slot-10 8900-G48X-xl 8900-G48X-xl Operational 48 MB
MSM-A 8900-MSM128 Operational 0
MSM-B 8900-MSM128 Operational 0

Do you have any information about this problem?

Best Regards,

Network Engineer

[Esa_Kuusisto]

Are you using ACLs bind to port or VLAN. In VLAN it takes more time. Then if you are using counters and counters are per port installation takes long time.

XL module install is much quicker that non XL (I have 8900 with XL modules and 24X + 96p. Install time non XL and XL is about three to four times longer). I made feature request long time ago that switch should first boot up, start forwarding traffic and then start applying ACLs.

Solution for now is now to uninstall ACLs, reboot and then install ACLs.

This is not a problem. It works as designed 