[4696] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Thu Sep 26 05:51:08 1996
To: Jon Green <jon@worf.netins.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, neil@EASYNET.NET
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:44:06 CDT."
<199609252244.RAA05613@worf.netins.net>
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@EASYNET.NET>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@EASYNET.NET>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:35:54 +0100
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:44:06 -0500
Jon Green <jon@worf.netins.net> alleged:
> Hi folks-
>
> I have a problem that I need some advice on, and figured this was a good plac
e
> 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.
>
I'd say take your custom elsewhere.
Neil.
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