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.
It must be costing us all a small operational fortune in router upgrades brought about by the growing BGP table size. And yes I do know that if I was running Quagga on a PC I could have 4GB of inexpensive RAM very easily, but I want to avoid the x is better than y discussion.
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. One of the things where being brave and being insane are only seperated by a very thin line ;-) Nils