Re: [nsp] RSP4 and RSP8 together?

From: John Welder (jwelder@cisco.com)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 02:17:46 EDT


Hi Gert,

sorry for the late reply, I took some PTO....

Gert Doering wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:17:18PM -0700, John Welder wrote:
> > Basically all bets are off on which gets elected master and which
> > get's elected slave if you mix RSP8 with RSP2 or RSP4.
> >
> > If a crash just occurred, that RSP which crashed will elect to be
> > the slave on the next boot. This is reliable. But on subsequent
> > boots or power cycles of the router, which RSP will elect to be
> > the master is not deterministic if mixed RSP8 and other RSPs
> > are used.
>
> Ah, I see. So it doesn't honour the "slave default-slot" setting
> anymore?
>
> > So for this reason we don't officially support mixed RSP8s
> > with other RSPs.
>
> Thanks for clarification. I have now ordered a second RSP4.
>
> (Do you know whether a RSP8+ or something is planned, with more than 256Mb
> maximum DRAM size? 256Mb is plenty today, but considering how fast 128Mb
> changed from "plenty" to "not enough"...)

So on a public alias like this I can't give specifics about un-released products.
But let me state that we do recognize the need for a RSP with more memory
and are activly working on providing a solution in the not too distant future...

Thanks,

  - John
 
> regards,
>
> gert
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