[3843] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint and Multi-Homing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc E. Hidalgo)
Fri Aug 23 09:33:44 1996
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:25:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Marc E. Hidalgo" <mhidalgo@sprint.net>
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5459.wsimpson@greendragon.com>
On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> *snip*
> >
> Gack! So that's what happened to my network last Sunday!
>
> Even though the provider from which we get our service claims to be
> multi-homed with Sprint and MCI, when the Sprint link was down, no
> traffic was flowing through MCI.
>
be more specific. there could be many reasons for this. most of which
wouldn't be Sprint's fault.
> OK. I'll be recommending that the Sprint contract not be renewed.
why? because your upstream may have not configured properly?
>
> And in the $10M RFP that just went out for one of my clients, I'll
> specify during my bid technical review in September that any bids that
> include SprintLink will not be accepted. Enough is enough.
on what technical basis? sigh
Marc
