[4705] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Thu Sep 26 09:45:15 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:40:48 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: rob@rjl.com, hank@rem.com, jon@worf.netins.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960926084755.21071A-100000@netrail.net> from "Nathan Stratton" at Sep 26, 96 08:52:40 am
> On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Rob Liebschutz 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.
>
> I had a sprint T1 a long time ago and we just had a P133 with Emerging
> Tech T1 cards. We were doing BGP4 with them and MCI and had to go with the
> P133 PC router because we ran out of RAM on the 4500s and did not have the
You ran out of RAM on the 4500???
With just two full BGP sessions?
> cash then for a 7000. We did have that same problem, sprint said that if
> we changed to a PC router they would terminate our connection. So I had to
> setup peering on the cisco then at night swap in my PC. It was able to do
> cisco HDLC so it worked out and I setup the router so that when you
> telneted to it it looked like a cisco.
>
> I think that most of this is a sales person problem, because not many tech
> people cared if I was using a cisco or a toaster, as long as I managed it.
>
> Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
Avi
