> On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Damien T. wrote:
> > > The company has an excess Livingston IRX-111 router with 16 Meg of RAM
> > > available for $1050 including UPS shipping. We may also have an extra
> > To compete with that... I have a bunch of Cisco 2501s (1 AUI ethernet,
> > two T1/E1 serials, 2MB of RAM, licences for IP and IPX, IOS 11.0)
> > available, from a company liqudation (corporate WAN).
> > $900 US each, including shipping within US.
>
> I notice that the IRX has 16 megs of ram. Why does it need 14 megs more
> of ram to do approximately the same thing?
>
> Thomas Tsai
Different application require different amounts of RAM. So it isn't the
same thing at all. Large routing tables, and other features will consume
more RAM. The Cisio 2501 is expandable to 16MB too.
Tom