[c-nsp] Sup32 Memory upgrade

[Tim Stevenson]

At 01:43 AM 4/28/2006, 'Kristian Larsson' pronounced:
>Anyway, this is a bit off the original topic. I am
>still curious what the different RAM memories on
>the Supervisor and MSFC2 is for.

MSFC RAM is used for control plane data structures typical of a 
router; SP RAM is used for data structures typical of a switch, as 
well as for shadow copies of h/w tables.

>There seems to
>also be a small flash memory on the MSFC2, what's
>it for?

Originally, to boot the IOS for MSFC in hybrid mode. Now, for 
crashinfo & that's about it.


Tim



Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
Routing & Switching CCIE #5561
Technical Marketing Engineer, Catalyst 6500
Cisco Systems, http://www.cisco.com
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