[c-nsp] Which switch can do what we need?

[Skeeve Stevens]

Hey all,

I have a customer trying to setup a solution for some hosting.

They want to have a dozen or so VLANs with thousands of secondary subnets
across these VLANs all configured with HSRP.

Initially they are testing with Cisco 3750's and they are having problems:

Apr  5 11:48:26.484 AEST: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 395648
bytes failed from 0x1164560, alignment 0
Pool: Processor  Free: 1212608  Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None  Free: 0  Cause: No Alternate pool
 -Process= "hulc running config", ipl= 0, pid= 309
-Traceback= 29AF8E4 29B1E04 29B2068 2C3D198 1164564 1163534 1160320 1169408
134B664 134B6F0 1ECAA54 1F5D2E4 1F5DA08 1620C20 1621984 1621B28

Also upon trying to save the config:

TEST#copy run start
Destination filename [startup-config]?
startup-config file open failed (Not enough space)
0 bytes copied in 0.00

So the 512k NVRAM isn't enough.

Does anyone know a Cisco model that can handle this many instances of HSRP,
number of secondary subnets, and has the NVRAM to save the actual config?
(couple of meg I guess) ?

...Skeeve



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