[c-nsp] Sup720 maximum memory?

Kristofer Sigurdsson kristosig at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 06:44:24 EDT 2006


Ahh...haven't had my cup of tea yet. :-)  I assumed the OP was really
just worried about the size of the IPv4 TCAM.

-Kristo

2006/8/10, Ed Butler <ed.butler at rapidswitch.com>:
> Yes, we're aware of the 239k IPv4 TCAM limitation. But the problem isn't
> that, it's when you run modular IOS and have a few full tables of ~190k
> routes, you get through 512mb system memory very quickly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed Butler
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de]
> Sent: 10 August 2006 11:27
> To: Kristofer Sigurdsson
> Cc: Ed Butler; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Sup720 maximum memory?
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:20:37AM +0000, Kristofer Sigurdsson wrote:
> > I don't think you can - for full views, you really need the -3BXL
> > (IIRC, $40k USD list).
>
> Don't mix "DRAM memory" (BGP views, etc.) with "TCAM memory" (number of
> routes).
>
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