[nsp] How much memory needed on a VIP

[Richard J. Sears]

We run 128MB on our VIP2-50s

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:06:54 -0600
"Hyunseog Ryu" <r.hyunseog at ieee.org> wrote:

> 
> At minimum, it will require 128MB for VIP4-80 or VIP6-80 if you are running 
> Full BGP routing.
> I don't think VIP2 can support more than 64MB, and that's why we replaced all 
> VIP2 with either VIP4-80 or VIP6-80.
> 
> I would say let's go with 256MB for VIP4(6)-80 CPU memory. 
> Currently full BGP routing table size is about 140K BGP prefixes, 
> and if there is any routing instance, it will jump up to 200K easily. 
> 
> If you don't want service disuption by memory limitation, let's go with 
> maximum memory if possible. 
> 
> Hyun
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:40:51 -0500 (EST), Krzysztof Adamski wrote
> > I have been looking on Cisco site, but can't find the answer to this.
> > 
> > If I have 256MB on a RSP4 so the router can have 3 BGP sessions, how 
> > much memory is needed on a VIP so if can do dCEF?
> > 
> > K
> > 
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