[c-nsp] disable console port

[Jared Mauch]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 09:04:52AM -0400, Pete Templin wrote:
> Robert Boyle wrote:
> 
> > All of these "chips" are FLASH! The NVRAM is always soldered to the board. 
> > You would notice if someone removed it - which goes back to my earlier 
> > point...  Who uses flash to hold configs and why?
> 
> I don't, but I'm approaching a time to start doing so.  I don't like the
>   perceived slowdown of compressed configs, and have boxes running low
> on NVRAM (thanks in part to SNMP ifIndex persistence, but that's very
> worthwhile to me).  If I get any more BGP customers on one particular
> box, I'll likely have to shift to using flash (or compress-config).
> 
> At NANOG34, Jared Mauch indicated his employer (Verio) has some routers
> with configs approaching (or possibly exceeding) 8MB.  They
> prefix-filter all peers, and obviously those configs can get mighty long
> (I'm fairly certain that Verio is all Juniper, FWIW though).

	We use both Cisco and Juniper routers.  We converted some of
the larger peers to max prefix, but even with that, we have at least
(today) 10 routers with configs over 1MB, with the largest over 4MB.

	- jared

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