[4708] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Thu Sep 26 10:41:10 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:36:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>
To: Steve Mansfield <smm@UU.NET>
cc: Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com>, hank@rem.com, jon@worf.netins.net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <QQbivl24363.199609261321@triryche.uu.net>
Steve -
I think he means Sprint told him they would not BGP4 peer with
him if he didn't have a Cisco 7000 series router. Not that it wasn't
possible. :)
-Deepak.
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Steve Mansfield 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.
>
> 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
>
