[4686] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Eastgard)
Wed Sep 25 20:11:22 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:01:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Eastgard <eastgard@nwnet.net>
To: Jon Green <jon@worf.netins.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609252244.RAA05613@worf.netins.net>
Were I in your shoes, I would go back to Bay. It's certainly in their
interests to use their corporate weight to get more of an audience with
Sprint, and / or resolve any problems Sprint has with their box.
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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Jon Green wrote:
> Hi folks-
>
> I have a problem that I need some advice on, and figured this was a good place
> to turn. We are attempting to connect a T1 to Sprint in order to multi-home
> our network. Currently we are connected to multiple points on MCI's backbone,
> and have just installed a T1 to UUnet. We heard back from Sprint today..
> they are rejecting us as a customer because we do not use Cisco routers.
> Apparently they feel that Bay Networks routers are not capable of routing
> Internet traffic, ignoring the fact that they already peer with ANS and
> several other providers using Bay routers.
>
> OK, Cisco bigots (hi Craig!), quit laughing at me for a second and give me
> some help here. Is there any technical justification for what Sprint is
> telling me? I have downstream customers using Bay, Cisco, HP, 3com,
> Compatible Systems, and even Proteon routers. All of them are able to
> connect with me just fine. I've been running BGP4 peering with MCI for
> over a year now, it also works fine. I can't find a single valid reason
> that Sprint should even need to "approve" my router vendor, except that
> some short-sighted engineer at Sprint doesn't understand that we live in
> a multi-vendor world. I'm obviously not going to force Sprint to accept
> my money, but this screws up a lot of the plans we have made in building
> our network.
>
> Any suggestions welcome. Anyone from Sprint who'd like to comment, please
> do so.
>
> -Jon
>
>
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