[c-nsp] Sup32 Memory upgrade

[Robert Boyle]

At 03:43 AM 4/28/2006, 'Kristian Larsson' wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:29:26AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 07:20:27AM +0200, 'Kristian Larsson' wrote:
> > > > The PFC3B defaults to 192k routes and is tunable to 239k, IIRC.
> > > I was under the impression that it will hold 256K
> > > routes and thus the system would hold for ~2-3
> > > years.
> >
> > 256k TCAM entries, but they need to be carved up to "IPv4", "IPv6",
> > "MPLS" and "multicast routes".  Not 256k + 256k + 256k + 256k, but
> > 256k for everything in total.
>Yes, I am aware, although I thought that you could
>partition it 100% IPv4 and nothing else. It would
>seem 244 something thousand is max for IPv4.
>But that is good enough for me.

Does anyone have a page which shows this tuning? I can't seem to 
locate the relevant config snippets in mailing list archives or with Google.

>Isn't there some great Cisco 6500 bible where you
>can find everything you ever wanted to know about
>the 6500? :)

My thoughts exactly. Even on Cisco's site, lots of this information 
is very difficult or impossible to find unless you already know the 
answers then you can search for the right config commands and find 
the document which lists those commands.

-Robert



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