> On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, MegaZone wrote:
>
> > Once upon a time Krzysztof Adamski shaped the electrons to say...
> > >I'm looking for information on the OR-HS, how good is it.
> > >If is has a T1 connected and OSPF running on the local network, what are
> > >the maximums that is can deal with?
> >
> > It can push a full E1 and deal with OSPF just fine. Especially with 3.7L
> > which has the improved WAN driver.
>
> I would not run OSPF on an OR at all, unless it is a very small network.
> I tried using an OR as a gateway to a small POP with a PM3 and 2 2e's but
> when I enabled OSPF on the WAN interface, it fell down fast and hard, not
> enough memory in the OR to do even a medium sized OSPF database. I would
> love to see either socketed memory in this unit, or 4MB so I could do just
> what I am wanting to do, now I need to get a 2501 or something else
> *cheap* that can do OSPF and have some memory in it.
I think you have some serious address summarization problems. I have a
OR-HS linking two sites, picking up routes from 2 PM3, PM2Es, and a small
firewall system. Total number of routes: 40. Total free memory 191000.
I could still probable double the routing table size and still be ok.
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