On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:09:06PM -0500, Hyunseog Ryu wrote: > I think IOS for Cisco 7600 router is about that size already. :-)
110MB for current advipservices, and growing. -rw-r--r-- 1 code code 110884868 Jun 4 18:05 c7600s72033-advipservicesk9-mz.122-33.SRB1.bin They actually suffer from the exact same problem. If you crack open the IOS image you'll see that the majority of size is actually speciality hw images (SIP/SPA, OSM, etc) and the like that most people don't use (and could easily install a second image for if they did). With Cisco the situation is much worse though, it actually has to read that entire image from flash with every boot (at the blistering speed of 1MB/s from ATA), then unzip it (yes it actually uses zip :P), then TFTP the subimages to MSFC and cards and boot them. If you ever wondered why it takes 5+ minutes to boot a 6500, a good 3 minutes of it is wasted on preparation due to poor image management... Of course these are the same people who have been shipping SUP720s for years with internal flash drives which are too small to hold any even slightly moderm images, then charging an extra $2k for a $20 commodity compact flash with a Cisco label on it. :) So yeah, Juniper is certainly better about the entire thing than Cisco in pretty much all respects, but thats hardly saying much. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC) _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
