[4727] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Malcolm)
Thu Sep 26 15:58:49 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:46:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joseph Malcolm <jmalcolm@UU.NET>
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: Joseph Malcolm <jmalcolm@UU.NET>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609261737.NAA04668@jekyll.piermont.com>
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.)
