[4769] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Sat Sep 28 09:32:17 1996
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, neil@EASYNET.NET
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:55:17 PDT."
<199609272055.NAA01371@quest.quake.net>
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@EASYNET.NET>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@EASYNET.NET>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 14:29:29 +0100
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:55:17 -0700
Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net> alleged:
> Take a look someday in the BSD/OS sources to find out who wrote
> RISCOM and ethernet drivers and PPP stack for it :)
Yeah I know :-) Although I know that from history and not the current
2.1 sources. You don't fancy doing a NetBSD driver ? ;-)
>
> Unfortunately you're comparing apples and elephants. ICM routers
> were (and still are) the most convolutedly configured and most
> overtaxed routers in the universe. Running a week-old revision of
> cisco code, at that, because previous releases had bugs which made
> it even less useful.
>
Well we were plugged into SL-DC-2 then SL-DC-14, not sure about the latter,
but yeah I remember the situation at the time. It was fun! :-)
> INSC had a big staffing problem -- as soon as a new person learned
> stuff he's leaving for a salary two times higher, and for a much
> less stressful environment. Sprint management was never able to
> recognize the fact that Internet backbone skills is a seller's market.
>
Yah, I wish someone would point that out to ISP's in the UK ;-)
Cheers,
Neil.
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