[19775] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternative sources for Cisco memory?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Fri Sep 25 00:53:27 1998
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:49:05 -0400
To: "Craig A. Huegen" <chuegen@quadrunner.com>,
Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>,
Joseph Thomas <jpt@networkcs.com>
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@neworks.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980924110939.A18903@quadrunner.com>
At 11:09 AM 9/24/98 -0700, Craig A. Huegen wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 12:35:20PM -0400, Nathan Stratton wrote:
>==>You sure can, most providers upgrade the memory on their ciscos with 3rd
>==>party RAM, the cisco stuff just cost to much. I dont know of "Cisco
>==>certified" memory dealers, but just buying decent RAM from any good vender
>==>should be fine.
>"Decent RAM" does *not* cut it--you need *good* RAM from a good vendor.
...
> Kingston carries this, and will even cross-ref
>the Cisco part numbers for you.
Ciscos have a greater expectation of on-spec behaviour from RAM. lots of
really borderline stuff that works fine in the random PC clone doesn't cut
it in a Cisco.
in my experience, the Kingston stuff that cross references out to Cisco
equivalents works quite well.
richard
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Richard Welty
NeWorks Networking, Inc. 518-244-9675
rwelty@neworks.net http://www.neworks.net/
