[c-nsp] 6500 WS-X6748-GE-TX and memory

[Daniel Suchy]

Hi,

On 03/27/2007 09:49 PM, Christoph Loibl wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:01 PM, Ian Cox wrote:
>>> IIRC this gives you more buffer for your line card. I.e. you will be
>>> able to buffer up to 1 GB worth of traffic.
>> Not it does not give you more buffering on the line card. The larger
>> memory part is for the processor on the line card so it can hold
>> large FIB tables.
> 
> Do I get this right... The memory is just for the DFC enabled cards?  
> So why is there such a large amount of memory on the CFC only cards?

There's running IOS on CFC too using that memory (i think, there's 256MB 
SODIMM and system reports 256MB of total memory) - in IOS it's 
accessible via attach <slotnum>.

Dan