[nsp] Memory required for a given number of routes

Edward B. Dreger eddy+public+spam at noc.everquick.net
Wed Jul 7 13:54:15 EDT 2004


CK> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:43:23 -0400
CK> From: Christian Kuhtz

CK> If memory serves, 45K prefixes used to require somewhere
CK> around 64-128MB a while back.  IMHO, there's probably little
CK> point considering anything other than BGP for that large
CK> number of prefixes in an SP environment anyway.

Memory serves.  I squeezed ~55K routes on a 26xx with 64MB a
couple years ago.  I forget the IOS image, but it was fairly
lean, and not much else was running on the router.  Default iomem
setting, too, IIRC.


Eddy
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