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Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Mansfield)
Thu Sep 26 09:51:02 1996

To: rob@rjl.com (Rob Liebschutz)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:21:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steve Mansfield" <smm@UU.NET>
Cc: hank@rem.com, jon@worf.netins.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM-RU.1.0.843709221.rob@solar.rjl.com> from "Rob Liebschutz" at Sep 25, 96 08:40:21 pm

> 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.

As Hank commented eqarlier, I think you've got a salesperson feeding
misinformation.  I've personally configured and successfully had a full BGP
routing session between a cisco 7000 and a Bay Networks router.  Would you
care for numbered or unnumbered BGP4 with that?

Steve Mansfield				 smm@uunet.uu.net
AlterNet Senior Network Engineer	 ...uunet!smm
					 703-206-5758

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