Nils Ketelsen <nils.ketelsen@kuehne-nagel.com> writes:
Ben Butler wrote:
if anyone had a view on what would happen if I managed to source an SDRAM of 512MB / 1GB of the same specification as the 256MB Cisco compatible memory that you use in an 7200 NPE225. Cisco say the maximum ram for that NPE is a pitiful 256MB, I am sure the memory manufacturers will have made larger SDRAMs, while recognising it would be fully unsupported what would happen if we tried to stick in a larger memory module in the NPE....
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.
That's not entirely a reasonable conclusion - the npe225 only "supported" 128m and a lot of us were running them with 256m.
Apart from the fact what is better than something else: I think it is very brave to use unsupported hardware to operate a network. If something fails, you are on your own then. No support from the vendor.
Of course, if you don't have the hardware under support contract in the first place...
One of the things where being brave and being insane are only seperated by a very thin line ;-)
Indeed. ---Rob