Cisco has a list of approved third-party memory vendors that you can use. In speaking with a technician about upgrading some routers, he gave me vendor part numbers and everything. I'm quite sure Kingston was on the list as well. One thing I did run into lately was early early early revisions of the 2500 series not taking Kingston memory due to some kind of requirement for an intel chip ID. Matthew Stainforth || Technical Services Manager || BrunNet Inc.

-----Original Message----- From: jeff.binkley@asacomp.com [mailto:jeff.binkley@asacomp.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:15 PM To: USR-TC@LISTS.XMISSION.COM Subject: (usr-tc) RE: (USR-TC) CISCO ROUTER

U>On Mon, 15 May 2000, Jeff Mcadams wrote:

U>> Also sprach Jeff Binkley U>> >A few weeks back there was a discussion here on the amount of U>> >memory required for a Cisco router running in a multihomed U>> >environment and BGP4. The recommendation was 128M of memory. I am U>> >interested in how much bandwidth into the Internet folks are seeing U>> >BGP4 use in this type of environment. Is it a significant amount ? U>> >Can someone put a quantity around it ?

U>> You can run 2 full views in 64megs of ram...its rather tight though, U>> so 128megs is definitely recommended.

U>We're fitting 3 full views into a 64 meg 3620, but just barely -- only U>about 5 meg free, and CPU is running around 40%. DON'T try this at U>home, kids; we're ONLY doing it because the 7206VXR we ordered is U>backordered and our UUNET T1 showed up early. I'm surprised it U>actually worked, really. But at the rate the table's growing, that 5 U>meg will be gone by the end of the summer.

U>A 3640 should be considered the rock bottom minimum these days, and a U>3661 or 7100 or 7200 would give a lot more breathing room. We went U>7206VXR to get away from external CSU/DSU's -- cramming a ton of U>WIC-1DSU-T1's into a 3661 would have been ugly and not very efficient U>use of the available slots... plus we can put T3's into it later as we U>need them.

U>BGP itself doesn't take much bandwidth, and bandwidth doesn't affect U>memory usage. It might affect CPU usage, though. We're pushing about U>2 megabits of backbone traffic into that 3620 and back out the other U>side to some internal T1/ethernet links.

Mike,

Thanks. I do have a 7200 which I am building for this. Your input was helpful. I did find that Kingston sells Cisco memory at 40% of what Cisco asks for it. Does anyone else have cheap sources ? Regular memory does seem to work but I can't get an answer from Cisco what is "special" about their memory other than the price.

Jeff Binkley ASA Network Computing

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