Marc,

As I recall, Cisco was requiring 64MB and recommending 128MB on most ISP 7500s over a year ago. Whatever......the point is that memory requirements will continue to grow over time.

The good news is that as more features have required more memory, the price of memory has dropped at an even faster rate.

MJB

At 22:21 25/03/98 -0500, Marc Nicholas wrote:

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Mike Bosch wrote:

...

A Filer is generically much more like a router than a general purpose Unix or NT box, but we still require much less space than Cisco's IOS, for

example.

Excuse me? You require less memory than IOS? Did I suddently reappear in another universe where IOS requires 128mb to run? :-p

You can even run a couple of full BGP views in a Cisco with 64mb -- and that's to compensate for Cisco's braindead table archietecture.

-marc

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