[4716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Skrobola)
Thu Sep 26 13:15:39 1996
To: Jon Green <jon@worf.netins.net>
cc: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>, hank@rem.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 26 Sep 1996 07:50:20 -0500.
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:09:54 -0400
From: Rob Skrobola <rjs@ans.net>
>Subject: Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
>From: Jon Green <jon@worf.netins.net>
>I considered that, actually. :)
Don't forget mac addresses..
>That goes without saying. If I didn't know how to configure it, I'd go
>buy a 2500 and let someone else manage it for me, like many other ISPs do.
>As it is, I'm quite familiar with how my routers work, and what their
>capabilities are. I wish other people were.. I'm always surprised when
>engineers from MCI tell me "Oh, Bay Networks can't do BGP4" (ignoring the
>fact that I *am* doing it with them.) I have two Bay BCN routers here,
>each card in the router has a 60MHz processor and 64MB of memory. One
>processor card is designated as the BGP soloist, and *all* it does is
>process BGP. If I want one, I can get a processor card that has dual
>PPC chips on it that will run as a BGP soloist. If anyone thinks Bay
>can't do BGP4, I'd be happy to give them a tour. :)
I can confirm that Bay routers do BGP4, and do it quite a bit.. :)
RobS
