Advice on dealing with Sprint

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Joseph Malcolm writes:

There are many unaccounted for variables here. You certainly don't
have as many unadvertised more specifics as we do, as much stuff in
the IGP, etc., etc. Those doing less will get some more breathing
room, but unless many more people get more more serious about reducing
global routing tables it won't be too long before 32MB will not be
enough for anyone.

Not, you understand, that I think the global routing table should be
kept in control, but I find it to be extraordinarily annoying that in
a world where cheap PCs have been able to take 128meg on their
motherboards for years (indeed, many can take far more!) and in which
workstations frequently have 64M of memory in them, there are routers
(many still sold!) which lack the slots to take more than 32M of
memory.

Perry

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Perry E. Metzger writes:

Not, you understand, that I think the global routing table should be
kept in control, but I find it to be extraordinarily annoying that in
a world where cheap PCs have been able to take 128meg on their
motherboards for years (indeed, many can take far more!) and in which
workstations frequently have 64M of memory in them, there are routers
(many still sold!) which lack the slots to take more than 32M of
memory.

Cisco has been repeatedly abused for this. They have learned, a bit,
over the years. The non-M 45xx/47xx boxes are I think no longer being
sold, and the "M" replacements are upgradeable to 64MB.

(of course, I suspect you'll never be able to get more than 64 MB of
memory for a 7000. Someday they will get abused for that, too.)