Re: How good is the OR-HS (fwd)

Tom Samplonius (tom@sdf.com)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 19:44:52 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Tim Flavin wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Tim Flavin wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
> Tom,
>
> Like I said, if you have a small net, you can do it. I have over 200
> routes in my routing table from OSPF

Like I said, you have some serious summarization problems, ie you aren't
do it.

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