You are innocent - I have found this behavior to be normal for our Cisco
routers ( the larger the tables the greater the impact).

Blaine Owens
Eastman Chemical Company
Phone - (423)-229-3579
Fax - (423)-229-1188
bowens AT eastman DOT com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fendrick, Gib (CC-MIS) [SMTP:Gib.Fendrick AT CONAGRA DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 1:13 PM
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> Subject:      polling for default routing entries
>
> Hi all.
>
> I have two Netview/AIX 5.1.1 systems running (production and development).
> When we do a Demand Poll on the prod system, it will take about 4 minutes.
> And the CPU on the router will shoot up to approx 60% during this time.
> The Demand poll display spends most of this time on 'get default routing
> entry'.
>
> When we do a Demand Poll on the development system, it takes about 15
> seconds.
> NO spike in CPU on the router.  No waiting for 'get default routing
> entry'.
> (Actually spends most
> of this time waiting to time out on an interface that's down).
>
> It seems to have something to do with the routing table, which on the
> router
> in question is about
> 1500 route entries.  Is there something we might have done that is
> influencing how NetView retrieves
> this table?   I've check the SNMP Configuration with the GUI on both
> systems, they are the same.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Gib Fendrick
> ConAgra, Inc.