From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 25 12:45:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA20716 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20711 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA06552; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 15:53:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970725154500.00cde1b0@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 15:45:03 -0400 To: Ulf Zimmermann From: dennis Subject: Re: FreeBSD Router Cc: isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 >Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 > >