Re: PM3 and BGP

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:33:14 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Matthew S. Crocker wrote:

> In order to multi-home effectively you need to have the full routing table
> on your router. Last time I looked the full routing table takes up 40MB
> of RAM. I don't even think the PM-3 can support that much RAM. The CPU
> can probably handle it though.

The amount of space the routing table takes up depends on how the router
stores stuff...i.e. Livingston claims to have a more efficient means of
storage than Cisco...but last I heard, a full set of routes in a Cisco was
about 8mb...thus the 2501's with 16mb are just barely unable to hold two
sets of routes...not to mention the lack of CPU power problems.

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