That is why they released a compressed image for the latest ones.
2500's were designed to run from flash, not from RAM. This was to save
money back when the first 2500's came out and RAM was VERY pricey
(separate of Cisco's price for memory... :)
You can compress the image and make it run from RAM, but you only have
16MB of DRAM to run from. (And unless you don't have the flash space to
begin with, it isn't normally recommended to have the 2500 run from RAM
anyways.)
Granted the basic images are in the reasonable category (the latest
12.2T -p- image is 9MB in uncompressed form), but the latest full
fledged images are quite a bit more then 16MB (14MB for IP+IPSEC), so
they are a total no-go. As a result Cisco decided to not release any of
the images for the 2500.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert@greenie.muc.de]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:12 PM
To: David Sinn; Gert Doering; wmaton@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca
Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp] release notes for 12.2(2)T?
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:00:32PM -0700, David Sinn wrote:
> The problem with the 2500 images for 12.2T is that in uncompress form
> they are taking more then 16MB of RAM.
While I'm sure this is true for things like "enterprise plus IPSEC", I
think this is unlikely for basic IP+IPv6 - the latest beta image I have
is
this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 gert daemon 3943951 Nov 10 2000 c2500-p-mz.20001101
which extends to about 8.5 Mbytes in the router - 16 Mb DRAM are there,
and "show mem" has a "Total" of 7.6 Mb after booting. 12.2T might
reduce that by 1-2 more megs, but not *so* much...
> I would not hold my breath for a C5RSM or C5RSFC image either. They
are
> pretty much dead products in Cisco's eyes.
Sounds like "time for a Juniper-on-a-Stick" for VLAN routing. *sigh*.
gert
-- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert@greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-35655025 gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Aug 04 2002 - 04:12:40 EDT