[4694] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Liebschutz)
Thu Sep 26 01:57:48 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 96 22:49:44 PDT
From: Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com>
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
Cc: cosmo@olywa.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 26 Sep 1996 01:45:57 -0400 (EDT)
> > > I spoke to a sprint salesperson about 2 weeks ago and was told that I
> > > could not get any kind of BGP4 peering with Sprint unless I had a
> > > Cisco 7000 series router.
> >
> > This is my experience also, althought I was able to get my sales
> > weasel to say that they might except a 45xx series if it had
> > sufficient memory, as some "exceptions" had been granted on a "case
> > by case" basis.
> >
> > As a reseller of IP services they will not manage my router for me,
> > but said I still had to have a Cisco(tm) router, even if I'm not
> > peering BGP.
> >
> > Jay Stewart
>
> I won't say there's "no way they can know", but basically they really
> shouldn't. If you disable incoming telnet to your Bay box and tell
> them it's a cisco with "cdp disabled", they shouldn't be able to
> tell the difference.
>
> Of course, you'd best know how the hell to configure the bay box
> if you want to go this route.
>
> Avi
>
>
Actually, I was planning to change the login prompt on my BSDI box to
User Access Verification
Password:
Rob
