On 2500, it's run from Flash whereas most of the others run from Ram... ""marcus jensen"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I have one 2501 with the full 16mb dram, but sho ver shows 14of mb/2mb. Total > is still 16, but 2mb is set aside and called shared memory portion. Will > this prevent an upgrade to a 16mb IOS. We all know the IOS is held in flash, > but it is copied into dram at bootup and run from there, so I wonder? > > As a side question, other 2500s routers of mine, some have their own > dedicated 2mb of this shared memory on board and some don't. I've opened up > the routers and you can see visually see which ones do and don't. The ones > with on board ram report full 16mb in show version not alluding to a 2mb > shared portion, because it is separate and on board I assume. > > Why did Cisco make this change? I would assume the ones with onboard are > considered newer, but the marking on the motherboard is 2 years older than > the one without on board memory. 2mb is minor, but does this make a > difference to anybody and would it affect ebay prices?
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