From: Church, Chuck (cchurch@wamnetgov.com)
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 00:17:04 GMT-3
I've seen 2600s with 32 megs of RAM handle 1400 OSPF inner and intra-area routes without issue.  Don't remember the memory statistics though.  4000 shouldn't be an issue with even 32.  Looking at:
Route Source    Networks    Subnets     Overhead    Memory (bytes)
connected       1           0           132         144
static          1           0           64          144
ospf 1          21          61          5248        11808
from a router, you can see that each OSPF route uses under 200 bytes.  4000 routes is still under a megabyte.  There are other limiting factors to why OSPF won't scale to a whole internet table such as number of neighbors and links, but with just 4000, I don't think you'll have a problem. 
Chuck Church
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Dumoulin [mailto:richard.dumoulin@vanco.es]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:48 PM
> To: MADMAN
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: OSPF routes
> 
> 
> But the 90000 routes were applicable to BGP right. For OSPF it may be
> different, I think it is less robust than BGP,
> 
> --Richard
> 
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: MADMAN [mailto:dmadlan@qwest.com]
> Enviado el: miircoles, 17 de marzo de 2004 18:18
> Para: Richard Dumoulin
> CC: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Asunto: Re: OSPF routes
> 
> 
> Richard Dumoulin wrote:
> 
> > How can I know if a 2611 with 128 M of RAM can hold 4000 routes ?
> 
>    Since 128M or RAM was enough for full routing not too long ago,
> roughly 90K routes, 4K should be no problem.
> 
>    Your bigger problem is stuffing 128M into your 2611!!!
> 
>    Dave
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > --Richard
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