[c-nsp] Cosmetic bug or unsupported NPE?

[Jon Lewis]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Saku Ytti wrote:

>> I'm also curious if anyone's already upgraded an NPE300 carrying full
>> routes from 12.2(18)S to 12.2.25(S).  How much less memory is available?
>> I'm just wondering how much longer these NPE300s can be nursed along
>> before we have to replace them with at least NPE400s with 512MB RAM in
>> order to hold full routes.
>
> I run NPE300 with 12.2(25)S extensively. With 256MB + two full views I'd
> recommend not to do, unless you have extremely small iBGP and no VRF.
> But even with tiny iBGP and no VRF it's race against time you'll soon
> loose, so start planning a design which does not require full table
> in NPE300's.

Are you using the memory-size iomem trick to free up another 32MB of RAM 
(that would have been i/o buffers)?

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