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From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Router
In-Reply-To: <9707251729.AA04810@fyeung8.netific.com> from Francis Yeung at "Jul 25, 97 10:29:32 am"
To: fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com (Francis Yeung)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:17:39 -0700 (PDT)
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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.

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