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Re: Routers RAM and BGP table bloat

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Oct 21 09:00:25 2005

Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:59:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Nils Ketelsen <nils.ketelsen@kuehne-nagel.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4358DBB2.5080507@kuehne-nagel.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Nils Ketelsen wrote:

> I am just guessing here, but if the manufacturer says 256MB is the
> maximum, I would expect that the unit is not able to address more than
> 256MB memory, regardless of the amount you plug in to it.

Occasionally, that's not the case.  i.e. the NPE225 was originally spec'd 
as having a max RAM capacity of 128mb.  I've got an old Sony notebook that 
Sony says is upgradable to 256mb...but several manufacturers make a more 
densely populated dimm for it that allowed me to upgrade it to 384mb.

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