As it was explained to me:
The OR series was designed for a border router... Except for rare
circumstances most people won't even need BGP or OSPF, but its there if
you need them.
> > You can do a full view into a PM2-ER with 16mb ram without any problem
> > according to MZ... I believe he said a full view was ~5.9MB
>
> Really? Hmm.. maybe it just doesn't work on a PM2e with 1mb of ram.
Yeah..
> > I don't have ISDN... do I *really* need it in my active memory? This
> > would solve a LOT of people's "oh god I need 4mb ram!" problem. It
> > seems that a lot of this could be unloaded quite easily (the Linux
> > kernel does this now, releasing any unused drivers) and could possibly
> > reduce problems... MZ, any comment?
>
> Well.. it's not in active memory - it's in the HEAP - but could still be
> loaded, not sure.
Is heap like a 'Ramdisk' or is the 'heap' the flash ram?
> I prefer a simiar build with everything in them personally .. 4mb upgrades
> aren't too bad.. I HATE when I have to go through 40 OS images per product
> and per release just to find the one with the options I need:)
That'd be icky, though it may be required in the future. Is there any
chance of a true ROM upgrade for the PM2 if comos needs it, or is the
size hardwired?
JS
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