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Problem Summary: The raw_ip process may crash due to a memory leak. Trigger: Bulk ping Impact: Impact: Control plane protocols may flap and recover following the raw_ip crash. Exposure: Issue is relevant to release 4.x. The suspected memory leak is seen on part of the code that is not present in 3.9.x code. Root Cause: Ping application uses raw_ip as transport for sending the ICMP packet. It is causing the memory leak in raw_ip as some of the memory allocations are not freed up during the release of pcb. Workaround/Error Recovery: Restart raw_ip process.

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