Advice on dealing with Sprint

Thu Sep 26 19:46:16 UTC 1996

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.)