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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Router
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Francis Yeung wrote:
> 
> 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
If I'm not mistaken the only one of the above that can handle full
routes is the
cisco and with a 64M mem upgrade.

ed