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alex at relcom.EU.net
alex at relcom.EU.net
Wed Jan 1 15:42:01 UTC 1997
First, Happy New Year.
2'th, sorry for my mistake - I just meant 45K as Cisco 4500... Through
it have not changed issue seriously -:)
3'nd.. Do you mean VIP2 idea is worst then SSE idea?
>
> Hmm, it's not news for us. 45K can hold core routing only as
> inter-back-bone router, not more.
>
> But why, why this crasy CISCO could not predict future when
> they designed 45K routers? It was not difficult for them
> develop this box to cary 64 or 128MB RAM.
>
> > Looks like the 45k mark was reached:
> >
> > Folks with 7000's and SSE's should start monitoring their memory
> > utilization via "show sse summary".
>
> There's a couple of comments here:
>
> First, 45k is not the limit. More like 60k. You'll pardon me for being
> cautious.
>
> The limitation is not DRAM. It's the 64k words of SRAM that the SSE uses
> for its high speed forwarding table. You don't want to pay for 64Mbytes of
> SRAM. ;-)
>
> When cisco's engineers designed the SSE, we knew very well what was
> happening. We expected to be given the opportunity to produce subsequent
> hardware which implemented the SSE in an ASIC. If, by that time, CIDR
> hadn't killed off the exponential growth, we would have expanded the
> address space. Unfortunately, cisco management decided that the SSE ASIC
> should not be implemented (a mistake which, to my knowledge, cisco has not
> corrected). Thus, the 7500 exists without an SSE.
>
> Tony
>
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