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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 1997 15:45:03 -0400
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Router
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970725154500.00cde1b0@etinc.com>

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At 11:17 AM 7/25/97 -0700, you 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 ?

You need 48MB to get 1 view.

Dennis

>> 
>> 
>> 	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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