I added new memory to a 3640 and received the following message upon booting up.


Smart Init is enabled
smart init is sizing iomem
ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE
0000D8 0X00178610 Dual Fast Ethernet Combo Port Module, 2 WAN
0X0010A6F8 public buffer pools
0X00211000 public particle pools
TOTAL: 0X00493D08

If any of the above Memory Requirements are
"UNKNOWN", you may be using an unsupported
configuration or there is a software problem and
system operation may be compromised.
Rounded IOMEM up to: 5Mb.
Using 5 percent iomem. [5Mb/96Mb]

Anyone know what this means?

After this the rest of the boot process finsihed normally


-bf

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I don't know what it means - Is it Cisco memory or rebranded stuff??

Only reason I ask is we received the attached file recently from Cisco.

Attachment: cisco stance on 3rd party memory & gbics.doc
This has been downloaded 4 time(s).

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That message shows up on other router models too (2600s for sure) ... forget where I first saw it but certainly on IOS 12.2(3).

I took it to be hardware recognition and memory assigned at boot up to that specific hardware. I didn't get curious about it and investigate because I saw no harm in it.

Yankee

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