Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:17:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com (Francis Yeung) Cc: steve@visint.co.uk, rls@mail.id.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Router Message-ID: <199707251817.LAA00284@Melmac.org> In-Reply-To: <9707251729.AA04810@fyeung8.netific.com> from Francis Yeung at "Jul 25, 97 10:29:32 am"
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> > Greetings, > > > > My guess is that 32MB is not enough to hold a full routing table, or maybe > > if I was running NOTHING else... From my calculations, 48MB would probably > > be okay, but memory is cheap as dirt right now, so... > > > > If 32MB is not enough to hold a full routing table, I wonder - > how much memory do most routers e.g. cisco 2501, cisco 7500, Ascend pipeline > etc have ? Are those routes ever aged ? > > > Best regards. > > Francis > A 2501 doesn't hold a full routing table, the maximum memory is 16MB, of which 2MB are used for shared buffers. A Cisco 7500 with RSP2 can have up to 128MB memory, with RSP4 it can have 256MB. -- Ulf. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073
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