[4695] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick J. Chicas)
Thu Sep 26 03:12:50 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:13:00 -1000 (HST)
From: "Patrick J. Chicas" <pjc@off-road.com>
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
cc: cosmo@olywa.net, rob@rjl.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609260545.BAA00994@netaxs.com>
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
> > > 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.
Someone is on drugs..
We BGP peered with ANS and Sprint via a Cisco 4500 with only 8mb RAM. The
trick was the utilization of the Cisco "AS Prepend" feature were we routed
distinct Sprint <-> Sprint traffic over the fractional DS-1 they provided,
the rest of the traffic over a more local, and less expensive
DS-1 connection to ANS. Later as Sprint advertised more routes we bumped
the 4500 to 16mb.
Patrick J. Chicas
Email: pjc@unix.off-road.com
URL: http://www.Off-Road.com
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