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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:27:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Stefan Molnar <stefan@exis.net>
To:        Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
Cc:        Francis Yeung <fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com>, steve@visint.co.uk, rls@mail.id.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Router
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.970725112551.19230B-100000@sailfish.exis.net>
In-Reply-To: <199707251817.LAA00284@Melmac.org>

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> > 	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. 

Where I use to work we put in 64MB in a 7010 to get a full BGP map.

Stefan




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