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Were I in your shoes, I would go back to Bay. It's certainly in their interests to use their corporate weight to get more of an audience with Sprint, and / or resolve any problems Sprint has with their box. ========================================================================= Tom N. Eastgard, Mgr Ph: 206/649-7414 Network Engineering email: [email protected] NorthWestNet Pager: 206/917-0647 On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Jon Green wrote: > Hi folks- > > I have a problem that I need some advice on, and figured this was a good place > to turn. We are attempting to connect a T1 to Sprint in order to multi-home > our network. Currently we are connected to multiple points on MCI's backbone, > and have just installed a T1 to UUnet. We heard back from Sprint today.. > they are rejecting us as a customer because we do not use Cisco routers. > Apparently they feel that Bay Networks routers are not capable of routing > Internet traffic, ignoring the fact that they already peer with ANS and > several other providers using Bay routers. > > OK, Cisco bigots (hi Craig!), quit laughing at me for a second and give me > some help here. Is there any technical justification for what Sprint is > telling me? I have downstream customers using Bay, Cisco, HP, 3com, > Compatible Systems, and even Proteon routers. All of them are able to > connect with me just fine. I've been running BGP4 peering with MCI for > over a year now, it also works fine. I can't find a single valid reason > that Sprint should even need to "approve" my router vendor, except that > some short-sighted engineer at Sprint doesn't understand that we live in > a multi-vendor world. I'm obviously not going to force Sprint to accept > my money, but this screws up a lot of the plans we have made in building > our network. > > Any suggestions welcome. Anyone from Sprint who'd like to comment, please > do so. > > -Jon > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > * Jon Green * Wide-Area Networking Technician * > * [email protected] * Iowa Network Services, Inc. * > * Finger for Geek Code/PGP * 312 8th Street, Suite 730 * > * #include "std_disclaimer.h" * Des Moines, IA 50309 * > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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