North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Router upgrade for small colo provider
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Andrew - Supernews wrote: It's actually 512M on both. With later/bigger IOS versions, you might actually utilize >256M on the Sup2. Max both out at time of purchase so you don't have to take it down later for upgrades.I have some of these running with combinations ranging from 5 full-routes sessions + iBGP through to 2 full + iBGP + 70+ peers. You don't need to be nervous about the MSFC2's ability to do BGP (though for serious work you do want the maximum memory in both the MSFC2 _and_ the Sup2 (512M and 256M respectively) - the 256M on the Sup2 is _important_ if you're going to have full routes). #remote command switch show mem Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b) Largest(b) Processor 448543E0 393919520 108659576 285259944 273392008 211623448 I/O 8000000 67108880 10353328 56755552 56755552 56755512 That's from a WS-X6K-SUP2-2GE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
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